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friedrich

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Registered: 2009-05-07

Posts: 26

[SOLVED] Bocken PATH variable.

Hi everybody,

I get the following output when evoking

$ echo $PATH
/bin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin/perlbin/site:/usr/bin/perlbin/vendor:/usr/bin/perlbin/core: No such file or directory

I looked through the files, ~/.xinitrc, ~/.bashrc, ~/.bash_profile,  /etc/profile, /etc/profile.bash and a couple of *.sh in /etc/profile.d/.

I just can't figure out where there is something added to the PATH variable that shouldn't be added.

Is there some neat way of solving this problem?  I need to add a path to my PATH variable in bash.  And I seem to not be able to do so, till the above problem is solved. :(

Cheers,
Thomas

Last edited by friedrich (2009-05-20 15:05:10)

friedrich

Member

Registered: 2009-05-07

Posts: 26

Re: [SOLVED] Bocken PATH variable.

I am so sorry, this was a really stupid question.  I forgot to put an echo in front of $PATH.  Damn stupid, sorry.

The reason that I couldn't change my PATH variable was that I thought I had to put it the lines

PATH=$HOME/bin:$HOME/bin/stuff:$PATH
export PATH

in my .bash_profile rather than in my .bashrc.  Damn it again.  So now everything is fine.  Sorry for the fuss again.

Cheers,
Thomas