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

From	Greg Wooledge <wooledg@eeg.ccf.org>
Newsgroups	linux.debian.user
Subject	Re: How To Permanently Add-to a Users PATH Statement in the Bash Shell
Date	2020-07-07 16:40 +0200
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On Tue, Jul 07, 2020 at 03:17:37PM +0100, Jonathan Dowland wrote:
> On Tue, Jul 07, 2020 at 04:14:16PM +0200, Nicolas George wrote:
> > cd ~/bin
> > ln -s ../opt/something/bin/something
> 
> Not in the default PATH either.

$HOME/bin is placed into the user's default PATH by Debian's ~/.profile
(the one in /etc/skel/.profile) if it exists at the time the ~/.profile
is read, if the ~/.profile is read at all.

As I keep saying, of course, what dot files actually get read depends
on how one logs in.

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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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