--- scott curtis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Keith Antoine wrote: > > #2. Can someone tell me how one adds a PATH statement. Is there > something on > > SxS, that I missed, know its been said before but I have no > hardcopy. I also > > remember there is a prescribed command line with PATH in caps and > also export > > PATH somewhere. > > As far as the path goes, if you would like to put something in the > path of the > user so that they can access it every time that they login, just edit > the > .bash_profile (I believe it is this file, provided that you are using > bash for > your shell) file in that user's directory. That is probably the > easiest way of > adding stuff to the path, just be sure to put in the ':' between > different > paths.
The basic formatting (whether in .bashrc, .bash_profile, .profile, or just on the command line) is: export PATH=$PATH;/path/to/more/paths;/another/one ===== ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Lonni J. Friedman [EMAIL PROTECTED] Linux Step-by-step help: http://netllama.ipfox.com . __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Send your FREE holiday greetings online! http://greetings.yahoo.com _______________________________________________ Linux-users mailing list Archives, Digests, etc at http://linux.nf/mailman/listinfo/linux-users
