On 4/7/21, Gene Heskett <[email protected]> wrote: > Greetings all; > > I just installed buster on a Dell 7010 and I have added two stanza's to > my .profile, to find a logout and back in does not establish a new > $PATH.
Probably because you've got a window manager that does the login stuph for you.. > The first of them will be added but not the other if I > . .profile > > The additions to .profile are: > ===== > # set PATH so it includes user's private bin if it exists > if [ -d "$HOME/bin" ] ; then > PATH="$HOME/bin:$PATH" > fi > > # set PATH so it includes user's private AppImages if it exists > if [ -d "$HOME/AppImages" ] ; then > PATH="$HOME/AppImages:$PATH" > fi > ===== > Both directories do exist. > > Any idea why its not working? A typo in your script? Add an else clause that shows the error and that will probably show you what's wrong -- eg dir="$HOME/AppImages" if [ -d "$dir" ] ; then PATH="$dir:$PATH" else echo "OnNoes!! The directory \"$dir\" does not exist!" fi note that $HOME/AppImages is listed only once. That makes sure that your test, path and diagnostic output are all using the same directory name. Regards, Lee
