Thanks Robert. However, i'm very new to linux and don't know shell scripting very well. How exactly would this script look like? As i said, i just want to add one of my folders to my path enviroment variable. Specifically, i got a directory called /myStuff that has some programs. I'd like to add this folder to my PATH variable so i can these programs from any folder i'm in. Thanks. On Sat, 29 Jan 2005 08:38:45 -0500 (EST), Robert P. J. Day <rpjday@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Sat, 29 Jan 2005, Leandro Melo wrote: > > > Hi, I want to add a folder to my PATH enviroment variable, then i > > tought i could edit /etc/profile. However, Fedora's /etc/profile file > > seems a little diferent from what i expected. > > In fact, i don't know excatly where i should change it to add this new folder. > > I could see this line in /etc/profile > > > > if ! echo $PATH | /bin/egrep -q "(^|:)$1($|:)" ; then > > if [ "$2" = "after" ] ; then > > PATH=$PATH:$1 > > else > > PATH=$1:$PATH > > fi > > fi > > don't mess with /etc/profile. note, instead, that /etc/profile, as > part of its startup, will descend into /etc/profile.d and invoke every > script in there with the suffix ".sh". just add a new script to that > directory for each new "feature" you want to customize during the > login process. > > rday > -- Leandro
