Setting $PATH

Forum: Other Help Topics
Topic: Setting $PATH
started by: huti

Posted by huti on May 06 2005,00:25

Where/how can I change the PATH?

Wado (thanks)

Posted by mikshaw on May 06 2005,01:47

you can change it anywhere.

Typically, for automatically setting variables, you'd do it in $HOME/.bash_profile, since that affects your initial login shell and all subsequent shells:
export PATH="$PATH:/a/new/path:/another/new/path"