$PATH question

[Michael Havens]

ohhhhhh.... so that's whu when I added something to my path it didn't work!

:-)~MIKE~(-:


On Wed, Feb 26, 2014 at 10:29 PM, Paul Mooring <paul at getchef.com> wrote:

> 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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