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Old 09-08-2005, 07:28 AM   #1
moonz
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PATH environment variable


Hi
I want to add and remove varaíables in my PATH envionment varibles!
Thank you, i hope ;-)
 
Old 09-08-2005, 07:41 AM   #2
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To add directories to your $PATH, add the following line to /etc/profile (For System Wide), or ~/.bash_profile or ~/.bashrc (For individual users):
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export PATH=$PATH:/path/to/directory
To remove directories from your $PATH, you need to find where they are set, (In the above files, or some other places depending on your distro), and remove the entry from the export PATH line.

I hope this helps
--Ian
 
Old 09-08-2005, 03:43 PM   #3
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Hi,

I simply could not locate where these vars were located for PATH! So, here is how I removed the unwanted entries...

1. the original path...
[patrick@iknomed avr]$ echo $PATH
/usr/kerberos/bin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/bin:/bin:/usr/X11R6/bin:/home/patrick/bin:/home/patrick/gccXdev/avr/tools/bin:/home/patrick/gccXdev/avr/toolchain/bin
[patrick@iknomed avr]$
2. copied the above and removed the unwanted entries and reassigned the entire PATH...
PATH=/usr/kerberos/bin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/bin:/bin:/usr/X11R6/bin:/home/patrick/bin:/home/patrick/gccXdev/avr/toolchain/bin

3. verified that it worked!
[patrick@iknomed avr]$ echo $PATH
/usr/kerberos/bin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/bin:/bin:/usr/X11R6/bin:/home/patrick/bin:/home/patrick/gccXdev/avr/toolchain/bin
[patrick@iknomed avr]$


HTH
 
Old 09-08-2005, 04:10 PM   #4
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Hi thank you very much! Il try this out
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