typically your PATH is set in your ~/.bash_profile file or your ~/.bashrc file. but quickly you can just do: export PATH=$PATH:<insert new dir here> "Yasin A. Vohra" wrote: > Hi! > > How do I chnage my PATH so that the SHELL prompt look sin my > current directory first. > > [root@localhost /root]# echo $SHELL > /bin/bash > [root@localhost /root]# echo $PATH > >../usr/bin:/sbin:/usr/sbin:/bin:/usr/bin:/usr/X11R6/bin:/root/bin:/usr/X11R6/bin:/root/bin > [root@localhost /root]# pwd > /root > [root@localhost /root]# > > Thanks. > > Sincerely, > Yasin > http://www.cs.utexas.edu/users/yasin > --------------------------------------------------------------------------- > Junior Officer > The Association for Computing Machinery (UTACM) http://acm.csres.utexas.edu > Department Of Computer Sciences http://www.cs.utexas.edu > The University Of Texas at Austin (UT) http://www.utexas.edu > T. U. Taylor Hall 2.124 Austin Texas 78712-1188 > Phone 512 471 9522 Fax 512 471 8885 > --------------------------------------------------------------------------- > > --------------------------------------------------------------------------- > Send administrative requests to [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Tom Carlile [EMAIL PROTECTED] "There are a billion people in China. And I want them to be able to pass notes to each other written in Perl. I want them to be able to write poetry in Perl. That is my vision of the Future. My chosen perspective." -- Larry Wall --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Send administrative requests to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
