On Tuesday 09 October 2007 17:55, Patrick Shanahan wrote:
> I have installed bsd-games, but cannot add the executable directory
> to PATH,
>    . PATH=$PATH:/usr/games

Why is there a dot / period there? That's the shorthand for the "source" 
command. You're telling the shell to read and execute commands from the 
argument (in this case, "PATH=$PATH:/usr/games").

Secondly, the diagnostic seems nonsensical. Even if the PATH variable 
were not set or set to an empty value, the diagnostic should have been:

PATH=:/usr/games: No such file or directory

All in all, I cannot make sense of what you report.


> ...
> Patrick Shanahan


Randall Schulz
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