Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@sourceware.cygnus.com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@sources.redhat.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@sources.redhat.com Message-Id: <5.0.0.25.0.20001202231629.02a13eb0@pop.bresnanlink.net> X-Sender: cabbey@pop.bresnanlink.net X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Version 5.0 Date: Sat, 02 Dec 2000 23:21:59 -0600 To: From: Chris Abbey Subject: RE: [patch] adding ~/bin to path In-Reply-To: References: <5.0.0.25.0.20001202211316.029f33a0@pop.bresnanlink.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; format=flowed At 23:56 12/2/00 -0500, Erdely, Michael wrote: >Pardon me if I misunderstand, but I just added this line to ~/.bashrc: >export PATH=$HOME/bin:$PATH > >Exited bash and reopened bash. >echo $PATH returned the old path with "/home/mike/bin:" in front of it. yup, that's the objective. But ~/.bashrc isn't shipped by default, /etc/profile is. Putting it in ~/.bashrc also puts the responsibility on each user, whereas putting it in /etc/profile has the system do it, just like every *nix I've ever worked on. now the forces of openness have a powerful and unexpected new ally http://ibm.com/linux/ -- Want to unsubscribe from this list? Send a message to cygwin-unsubscribe@sourceware.cygnus.com