Re: PATH Issues

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On Wed, 2008-05-21 at 10:31 -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??
> 
> Thanks,
> Greg Sieranski
> 
Check the paths added in /etc/profile.
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