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ITJedi · 02-17-2004, 04:09 PM

This may be a really stupid question, but here goes anyway.

I am trying to edit the PATH, but I cannot find it. Does anyone know where it is. I am using the bash shell, but there isn't .profile or .bash_profile file that I can find.

Thanks for your help.

Gnuru · 02-17-2004, 04:24 PM

What do you mean you can't find PATH?

Doing:

echo $PATH

at the command prompt will show you the value.

You can write to the variable, so for example if you want to add /another/directory to path you do:

PATH=$PATH:/another/directory; export PATH

There's a bit more information here:

http://gnuru.org/index.pl?node_id=608

Gnuru · 02-17-2004, 04:27 PM

Whooops, sorry, didn't realise this was a Solaris question. I was answering one about Linux

FragInHell · 02-18-2004, 01:52 AM

Should make no difference Solaris or Linux they both work the same way.