making a variable for the shell

[Scott Berry]

Okay thanks much.  I have the cron job set up under /home/Cron Scripts so 
this should work.

Scott
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Mikkel L. Ellertson" <mikkel at infinity-ltd.com>
To: "For users of Fedora" <fedora-list at redhat.com>
Sent: Saturday, April 14, 2007 4:45 PM
Subject: Re: making a variable for the shell


> Scott Berry wrote:
>> Hello there,
>>
>> I would like to tell Bash that /home/ShellScripts/ is a path that I want
>> to be seen all the time.  How would one do this or what man page would I
>> consult?
>>
>> Scott
>>
> In ~/.bash_profile, add something like:
>
> PATH=$PATH:/home/ShellScripts/
>
> export PATH
>
> But I think the default setup is:
> PATH=$PATH:$HOME/bin
>
> This lets you create a bin directory in your home directory to put
> your scripts in. Usually, local scripts that you want all users to
> be able to access are put in /usr/local/bin. A world writable
> directory on your path is not a good idea...
>
> Mikkel
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