Problems exporting PATH after modified.

[Vikram Goyal]

-----Original Message-----
From: "Jacques Escape" <deepspin at linuxmail.org>
Sent: Mon, Dec 15, 2003 at 01:38:43PM +0800
To fedora-list at redhat.com
Subject: Problems exporting PATH after modified.


> Hi,
> 
> I'm having some problems exporting the PATH environmental variable after I have modified it in the Terminal that comes with KDE.
> 
> What I do is I modify the PATH variable, and then export it. After this when I call "echo $PATH" the output displays the new modified string. BUT as soon as I log-out and log-in again the new modified PATH is gone and replaced by the original.
> 
> Please HeLp. I have consulted a number of books and nowhere have I found anything relating to this problem, except that one must export a variable in order to make it global.
> 
> thanX in advance for any help given.
> 
> Jacques
> 
> P.S.: I'm a real newbie ;-)

You are not saving the new variable value i.e after logout and login you
get the old value.
save your new value to path in your ~/.bash_profile

PATH=$PATH:new value
export PATH

HTH.
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