PATH Issues

Sieranski, Greg greg.sieranski at quoininc.com
Wed May 21 14:31:44 UTC 2008


Chris G wrote:
> On Wed, May 21, 2008 at 10:21:53AM -0400, Sieranski, Greg wrote:
>   
>> I have the following in my .bash_profile
>>
>> CVS_RSH=ssh
>> DAISY_HOME=$HOME/src/quoininc.com/daisy/projects/daisy-2.0.1
>> EDITOR=/usr/bin/vim
>> GREP_COLOR='1;32'
>> JAVA_HOME=$HOME/opt/jdk1.6.0_06
>> PATH=${JAVA_HOME}/bin:$HOME/opt/hg:/sbin:$HOME/bin:$PATH
>>
>> export CVSROOT
>> export CVS_RSH
>> export DAISY_HOME
>> export EDITOR
>> export GREP_COLOR
>> export JAVA_HOME
>> export PATH
>>
>> alias grep='grep --color=always'
>> alias la='env LC_ALL=C ls --color=tty -I lost+found -Fla'
>> alias ll='env LC_ALL=C ls --color=tty -I lost+found -Fl'
>> alias ls='env LC_ALL=C ls --color=tty -I lost+found -F'
>> alias vi=$EDITOR
>>
>> PS1="[\w] "
>>         case `id -u` in
>>               0) PS1="${PS1}# ";;
>>               *) PS1="${PS1}$ ";;
>>         esac
>>
>>
>> when I do echo $PATH I get:
>>
>> /home/gps/opt/jdk1.6.0_06/bin:/home/gps/opt/hg:/sbin:/home/gps/bin:/home/gps/opt/jdk1.6.0_06/bin:/home/gps/opt/hg:/sbin:/home/gps/bin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/bin:/bin:/usr/X11R6/bin
>>
>> if you notice I have the jdk, hg , ~/bin being added to the path twice. 
>> Does anyone know why this is happening?
>>
>>     
> I think you'll find that ~/bin at least is added by the default
> profile scripts in /etc.  Maybe the others are too by some additions
> made when you install java etc.
>
>   
I removed everything from the PATH so it's just PATH=$PATH and now I get 
the following:

/home/gps/opt/jdk1.6.0_06/bin:/home/gps/opt/hg:/sbin:/home/gps/bin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/bin:/bin:/usr/X11R6/bin

which is what I wanted. I just don't understand how it is able to find 
these without explicitly specifying them in the PATH??

Thanks,
Greg Sieranski




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