On Sun, Jan 27, 2008 at 08:49:04PM CST, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > From: Peter Münster <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > On Sat, Jan 26 2008, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > > > > PATH="/usr/bin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/X11/bin" > > > > > > Mutt is in /sw/bin/ > > > > > > How can I add /sw/bin/ to my path? > > > > Just after logging in, you can enter the command "ls -alrut", that shows in > > the last lines, the files that have just been read. Among these files, > > there should be an initialisation file for your shell, for example .bashrc > > or .profile. In the end of this file, you can put the line > > PATH=$PATH:/sw/bin > > Your suggestion below pointed out that .bash_profile is the > initialization file. But .bash_profile has no references to Path in > it. I can add PATH=$PATH:/sw/bin as you suggested, but will adding > this override my original Path variable, or simply add it to the > existing path?
Your ~/.bash_profile doesn't need any initial references to PATH, because your shell inherits the default value from its parent process. Without creating ~/.bash_profile, open a Terminal.app window and type "echo $PATH" to see the shell's default value. Going this way, I would go with Peter Münster's suggestion. > If it is possible I would rather add /sw/bin to the resource file > where the rest of my Path is stored. How would I go about doing this? /sw indicates Fink. <http://www.finkproject.org/doc/bundled/install-fast.php> > > The last command runs a little script to help set up your Unix paths > (and other things) for use with Fink. In most cases, it will run > automatically, and prompt you for permission to make changes. If the > script fails, you'll have to do things by hand. > > (If you need to do things by hand, and you are using csh or tcsh, you > need to make sure that the command source /sw/bin/init.csh is executed > during startup of your shell, either by .login, .cshrc, .tcshrc, or > something else appropriate. If you are using bash or similar shells, > the command you need is . /sw/bin/init.sh, and places where it might > get executed include .bashrc and .profile.) So basically add the line ". /sw/bin/init.sh" into your ~/.profile or ~/.bash_profile init files. This should add /sw/bin to your PATH, and set up other Fink-related environment variables as well. -- Eugene
