Re: PATH Issues

Sieranski, Greg wrote:

Chris G wrote:

On Wed, May 21, 2008 at 10:31:44AM -0400, Sieranski, Greg wrote:

Chris G wrote:

On Wed, May 21, 2008 at 10:21:53AM -0400, Sieranski, Greg wrote:

I have the following in my .bash_profile

CVS_RSH=ssh
DAISY_HOME=$HOME/src/quoininc.com/daisy/projects/daisy-2.0.1
EDITOR=/usr/bin/vim
GREP_COLOR='1;32'
JAVA_HOME=$HOME/opt/jdk1.6.0_06
PATH=${JAVA_HOME}/bin:$HOME/opt/hg:/sbin:$HOME/bin:$PATH

export CVSROOT
export CVS_RSH
export DAISY_HOME
export EDITOR
export GREP_COLOR
export JAVA_HOME
export PATH

alias grep='grep --color=always'
alias la='env LC_ALL=C ls --color=tty -I lost+found -Fla'
alias ll='env LC_ALL=C ls --color=tty -I lost+found -Fl'
alias ls='env LC_ALL=C ls --color=tty -I lost+found -F'
alias vi=$EDITOR

PS1="[\w] "
        case `id -u` in
              0) PS1="${PS1}# ";;
              *) PS1="${PS1}$ ";;
        esac


when I do echo $PATH I get:

/home/gps/opt/jdk1.6.0_06/bin:/home/gps/opt/hg:/sbin:/home/gps/bin:/home/gps/opt/jdk1.6.0_06/bin:/home/gps/opt/hg:/sbin:/home/gps/bin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/bin:/bin:/usr/X11R6/bin

if you notice I have the jdk, hg , ~/bin being added to the path twice. Does anyone know why this is happening?

I think you'll find that ~/bin at least is added by the default
profile scripts in /etc.  Maybe the others are too by some additions
made when you install java etc.

I removed everything from the PATH so it's just PATH=$PATH and now I get the following:

/home/gps/opt/jdk1.6.0_06/bin:/home/gps/opt/hg:/sbin:/home/gps/bin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/bin:/bin:/usr/X11R6/bin

which is what I wanted. I just don't understand how it is able to find these without explicitly specifying them in the PATH??

You are actually logging out and then logging back in between changes
are you?  (Silly question but then I've done some pretty silly things
and puzzled myself no end!)

good catch. I was only closing the terminal and then reopening it. So after logging out my path is /usr/local/bin:/usr/bin:/bin:/usr/X11R6/bin.

so I reverted my path back to

PATH=${JAVA_HOME}/bin:$HOME/opt/hg:/sbin:$HOME/bin:$PATH

closed and reopend the terminal and now the path is

/home/gps/opt/jdk1.6.0_06/bin:/home/gps/opt/hg:/sbin:/home/gps/bin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/bin:/bin:/usr/X11R6/bin

which is correct. Not sure what was going on.

Thanks,
Greg Sieranski

to double check things I logged back out and my PATH is now back to:

/home/gps/opt/jdk1.6.0_06/bin:/home/gps/opt/hg:/sbin:/home/gps/bin:/home/gps/opt/jdk1.6.0_06/bin:/home/gps/opt/hg:/sbin:/home/gps/bin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/bin:/bin:/usr/X11R6/bin

Thanks,
Greg Sieranski

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