$PATH question

[Paul Mooring]

exporting your path just makes it available for other shells.  If you can
run `echo $PATH` and you see '/home/larry/bin' as part of your PATH, it's
definitely in you path for that particular seesion, you might make sure
that the permissions are correct `ls -lah /home/larry/bin` should show
execute bits on foo.sh


On Wed, Feb 26, 2014 at 9:27 PM, James Mcphee <jmcphe at gmail.com> wrote:

> If you don't add export PATH=/home/larry/bin:${PATH} to your .bash_profile
> (or .profile, or .bashrc depending on your shell and how you execute it),
> you'd need to do it each time.  Adding the export into your profile or rc
> files will make sure that's run at shell execution.  Consult your shell
> documentation for the correct files and when/if they are loaded at any time.
>
> For example, if you go through the standard login function, bash reads
> /etc/bash_profile (fallback to /etc/profile), ~/.bash_profile,
> ~/.bash_login, and then ~/.profile, in that order.  Subshells take the rc
> files, like /etc/bashrc and ~/.bashrc.  And of course, your various profile
> and rc files usually contain things like bash_profile's: ". ~/.bashrc" and
> debian's sourcing of scripts in /etc/profile.d in /etc/profile.
>
> For general use, just add your stuff to ~/.profile and you'll almost
> always get it for most shells that you interact with.
>
>
> On Wed, Feb 26, 2014 at 10:07 PM, Dazed_75 <lthielster at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> I don't remember as I did it  long ago.  but when I type echo $PATH, what
>> I get is:
>>
>>
>> /home/larry/bin:/opt/OpenPrinting-Gutenprint/sbin:/opt/OpenPrinting-Gutenprint/bin:/usr/lib/lightdm/lightdm:/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/bin:/usr/games
>>
>> does that mean I did? or if I need to export it, when and how often is it
>> needed?
>>
>>
>> On Wed, Feb 26, 2014 at 9:26 PM, Carl Parrish <cparrish at carlparrish.com>wrote:
>>
>>> Did you export?
>>> On Feb 26, 2014 8:18 PM, "Dazed_75" <lthielster at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>
>>>> I thought $PATH contained the series of paths searched to find an
>>>> executable file by the name specified on the command line.  Specifically if
>>>> my $ENV contains a $PATH which reads:
>>>>
>>>> /home/larry/bin:<more paths>
>>>>
>>>> that an executable file like foo.sh found in /home/larry/bin/ could be
>>>> run by simply typing foo.sh on the command line.  What am I doing wrong as
>>>> it does not work though it does if I type ./bin/foo.sh while in
>>>> /home/larry/?
>>>>
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