[wplug] PATH problem with Bash

Zach netrek at gmail.com
Wed Mar 19 08:20:14 EST 2008


On Wed, Mar 19, 2008 at 6:52 AM, Jonathan S. Billings
>
>  If you don't export the $PATH variable, it doesn't get passed on to
>  subshells.  Try putting 'export ' in front of the PATH in your
>  addition.

Hi,

I just tried:

# set PATH so it includes user's private bin if it exists
if [ -d ${HOME}/bin ] ; then
    export PATH=${HOME}/bin:"${PATH}"
fi

But same problem.

I also tried:

# set PATH so it includes user's private bin if it exists
if [ -d ${HOME}/bin ] ; then
    PATH=${HOME}/bin:"${PATH}"
fi

export PATH=/usr/local/java2/bin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/local/contrib/bin:/afs/club.cc.cmu.edu/usr/chaos/bin:"${PATH}"

And:

# set PATH so it includes user's private bin if it exists
if [ -d ${HOME}/bin ] ; then
    export PATH=${HOME}/bin:"${PATH}"
fi

export PATH=/usr/local/java2/bin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/local/contrib/bin:/afs/club.cc.cmu.edu/usr/chaos/bin:"${PATH}"

Zach


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