PATH Issues

[Sieranski, Greg]

Gordon Messmer wrote:
> Sieranski, Greg wrote:
>> I have the following in my .bash_profile
>>
>> PATH=${JAVA_HOME}/bin:$HOME/opt/hg:/sbin:$HOME/bin:$PATH
> ...
>> 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?
>
> Are you calling "source .bash_profile" in your .bashrc?  Don't.  
> Instead, source .bashrc from .bash_profile.  You have it backward.
>
my .bashrc is empty. I have not touched it.