bash/terminal: how to save PATH variable

And how exactly did you set it in the files you named?
(Possibly cut-n-paste what you did.)

Dave

And what do you see when you open a terminal session and do

echo $PATH

Dave

How did you create these files? They need to be linefeed terminated files

file .bashrc
.bashrc: ASCII English text
file .profile
.profile: ASCII English text

It should NOT say CRLF nor CR line termintors.

What shell are you using?

echo $SHELL

Is there a .bash_profile? There is a specific order to when and where shell initialization files are read.

If bash, see

man bash

As a diagnostic, you might insert some echo statements into the various shell initialization files

echo "Starting: .profile"
echo "Starting: .bashrc"
etc...

Personally, I don't have a .profile, what I have is .bash_profile, which I created as Plain Text using TextEdit, and added the stuff I wanted. Here's the sum total of that file:

PATH=$PATH:"/Developer/Tools/"
export PATH
PAGER="less -ERmX~"
export PAGER
alias locoup='sudo /usr/libexec/locate.updatedb'
alias octop='stat -f%#Op'
PS1='NoobiX:\w \u\$ ' ;

I must admit I no longer remember WHY some of those items are there. Anyway, when I check my PATH in bash, I get this:

NoobiX:~ francine$ echo $PATH
/usr/bin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/X11/bin:/Developer/Tools/

So Developer Tools is indeed in my PATH, and I can use the items I've got there easily.
Francine


Francine
Schwieder

After entering your last entry in .profile, run: source ~/.profile

I also only have a .bash_profile file in ~/Users/<username>, with these two simple settings:

export PATH=$PATH:/usr/local/bin:/Developer/Tools:/Developer/usr/bin/:/usr/X11/bin:/us r/libexec/:
export MANPATH="/usr/share/man:/usr/local/share/man:/usr/X11R6/man:/Developer/usr/shar e/man:"

My .bash_profile and .bashrc total 1085 lines 🙂

Then again, I've been using Unix based operating systems since '85.

And I'll bet you remember what all the entries mean, and why ya put 'em in! 😉
Francine


Francine
Schwieder

ROTHFLMAO! I didn't post the six aliases that I routinely use.

And I'll bet you remember what all the entries mean, and why ya put 'em in!

As a matter of fact, I do 🙂

Of course it helps that I use lots of white space and comments, which makes my initialization files very readable. That and I wrote my first .profile in '85 🙂