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mateusz.f

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Registered: 2009-04-17

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adding $home/bin to user path

Hi,

Anyone knows how to add bin directory to the PATH environment variable? I tried the /etc/profile and /etc/environment but I  think that $HOME is not available at the moment of running them. So next thing was to try .profile in user dir, but it's not run when I use startx with awesome wm and urxvt / zsh combination. What I would like is to have a shell agnostic solution which would work for all users.

Thanks,
Matt

klixon

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From: Nederland

Registered: 2007-01-17

Posts: 525

Re: adding $home/bin to user path

# ~/.bashrc <- right here to avoid duplicates entries when using a shell in a shell in a shell 
PATH=${HOME}/bin:${PATH}
# or
PATH=${PATH}:${HOME}/bin
# depending on which "bin" you want to give higher priority

export PATH # for good measure

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Allan

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Registered: 2007-06-09

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Re: adding $home/bin to user path

Can you stick in in ~/.xinitrc given you are using startx?

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mateusz.f

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Registered: 2009-04-17

Posts: 46

Re: adding $home/bin to user path

Thanks, but I need something more general

klixon:
I think this is bash specific. I'm not sure if it will be called when I use zsh.

allan:
I would like it to be default when I add new users

mateusz.f

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Registered: 2009-04-17

Posts: 46

Re: adding $home/bin to user path

As far as I remember it works on Ubuntu. Maybe I'll try to mount my Ubuntu partition and check it.

mateusz.f

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Registered: 2009-04-17

Posts: 46

Re: adding $home/bin to user path

Ok, on Ubuntu lines responsible for adding bin to path are in ~/.profile. I think it is a good place for the functionality. What I will do is to source it in xinitrc, so it should work on terminals and in X. Then I'll modify the user skeleton directory.

Thanks for help,
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keegan

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Registered: 2009-05-12

Posts: 54

Re: adding $home/bin to user path

Have you looked in /etc/profile ? I think you can set it system-wide there.