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Re: How To Permanently Add-to a Users PATH Statement in the Bash Shell

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Roberto C. Sánchez (12020-07-07):
> You should add the export command to ~/.bashrc (for it to only be in
> effect for that user)

Except ~/.bashrc is only sourced for interactive shells, it will not be
run when applications are executed by a GUI, for example.

(Also, for some reason, the bash authors thought it was a good idea to
have login interactive shells not run ~/.bashrc; better use a saner
shell and put the environment in ~/.zshenv, which is sourced by all
shells.)

But adding the application bin directory to the $PATH environment is
entirely the wrong way of going at it. It results in huge $PATH, which
increase the cost of running everything and makes the system more
fragile. The right way of going at it is to make the application entry
points appear in the directories that are already in $PATH.

cd ~/bin
ln -s ../opt/something/bin/something

(relative paths are to be preferred in these cases)

Regards,

-- 
  Nicolas George

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How To Permanently Add-to a Users PATH Statement in the Bash Shell "Stephen P. Molnar" <s.molnar@sbcglobal.net> - 2020-07-07 16:00 +0200
  Re: How To Permanently Add-to a Users PATH Statement in the Bash  Shell Roberto C. Sánchez <roberto@debian.org> - 2020-07-07 16:10 +0200
    Re: How To Permanently Add-to a Users PATH Statement in the Bash  Shell Jonathan Dowland <jon+debian-user@dow.land> - 2020-07-07 16:20 +0200
      Re: How To Permanently Add-to a Users PATH Statement in the Bash  Shell Greg Wooledge <wooledg@eeg.ccf.org> - 2020-07-07 16:40 +0200
        Re: How To Permanently Add-to a Users PATH Statement in the Bash  Shell Zenaan Harkness <zenaan@freedbms.net> - 2020-07-08 02:10 +0200
          Re: How To Permanently Add-to a Users PATH Statement in the Bash  Shell Roberto C. Sánchez <roberto@debian.org> - 2020-07-08 02:30 +0200
            Re: How To Permanently Add-to a Users PATH Statement in the Bash Shell David Wright <deblis@lionunicorn.co.uk> - 2020-07-08 06:50 +0200
          Re: How To Permanently Add-to a Users PATH Statement in the Bash  Shell Andrei POPESCU <andreimpopescu@gmail.com> - 2020-07-08 07:30 +0200
      Re: How To Permanently Add-to a Users PATH Statement in the Bash  Shell Nicolas George <george@nsup.org> - 2020-07-07 16:40 +0200
    Re: How To Permanently Add-to a Users PATH Statement in the Bash  Shell Nicolas George <george@nsup.org> - 2020-07-07 16:20 +0200
  Fw: How To Permanently Add-to a Users PATH Statement in the Bash Shell Matthew Campbell <trenix25@pm.me> - 2020-07-07 16:10 +0200
  Re: How To Permanently Add-to a Users PATH Statement in the Bash  Shell Greg Wooledge <wooledg@eeg.ccf.org> - 2020-07-07 16:20 +0200
    Re: How To Permanently Add-to a Users PATH Statement in the Bash  Shell Zenaan Harkness <zenaan@freedbms.net> - 2020-07-08 02:10 +0200
    Re: How To Permanently Add-to a Users PATH Statement in the Bash  Shell Zenaan Harkness <zenaan@freedbms.net> - 2020-07-08 02:50 +0200
      Re: How To Permanently Add-to a Users PATH Statement in the Bash  Shell Andrei POPESCU <andreimpopescu@gmail.com> - 2020-07-08 07:30 +0200
        Re: How To Permanently Add-to a Users PATH Statement in the Bash  Shell Greg Wooledge <wooledg@eeg.ccf.org> - 2020-07-08 13:50 +0200
          Re: How To Permanently Add-to a Users PATH Statement in the Bash  Shell Zenaan Harkness <zenaan@freedbms.net> - 2020-07-08 14:50 +0200
  Re: How To Permanently Add-to a Users PATH Statement in the Bash  Shell Nate Bargmann <n0nb@n0nb.us> - 2020-07-08 15:00 +0200
    Re: How To Permanently Add-to a Users PATH Statement in the Bash  Shell Greg Wooledge <wooledg@eeg.ccf.org> - 2020-07-08 15:40 +0200
      Re: How To Permanently Add-to a Users PATH Statement in the Bash  Shell Nate Bargmann <n0nb@n0nb.us> - 2020-07-09 20:40 +0200

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