On Monday, Dec 15th 2003 at 08:39 -0500, quoth ne...:
=>On Dec 15, 2003 at 13:38, Jacques Escape in a soothing rage wrote:
=>
=>>Hi,
=>>
=>>I'm having some problems exporting the PATH environmental variable
=>>after I have modified it in the Terminal that comes with KDE.
=>>
=>>What I do is I modify the PATH variable, and then export it. After
=>>this when I call "echo $PATH" the output displays the new modified
=>>string. BUT as soon as I log-out and log-in again the new modified
=>>PATH is gone and replaced by the original.
=>That is the correct behaviour. You need to add the
=>PATH statement to your shell resource config file.
=>For the bash shell use ~/.bash_profile or ~/.bashrc.
=>
=>N.Emile...
Please do *not* simply add it to the .bashrc. The proper way to do it is
to set your PATH in a .bash_path and have that .bash_path sourced in by
the .bash_profile. Also, you want to test your PS1 variable in your
.bashrc to see if it has a value. If it does not you should source in your
.bash_path. This is so that rsh/ssh commands will have a proper value for
PATH even though the process is not a login process.
Here's the recap:
.bash_path
export PATH=zumzinggood:zumzingelzegood
.bash_profile
. ~/.bash_profile
.bashrc
if [[ -n "$PS1" ]]
then
# set some useful aliases
# but no environment variables.
else
. ~/.bash_profile
fi
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