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Operating Systems Linux Fedora set path using a shell program Post 302303349 by nsharath on Thursday 2nd of April 2009 11:58:20 AM
Old 04-02-2009
Bug set path using a shell program

Hello sir,
I am using a fedora 9 system.
I wanted to update the path to include the $HOME into the path.
So what we do is :
Quote:
[..]# PATH=$HOME:PATH
This will update the path.
I want to do the same thing by writing it in a shell prgram.
I wrote the above code in an "a.sh" file and executed it using "bash a.sh".BUt this did not update the path.
Why did it happen so Smilie
 

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SYSTEMD-PATH(1) 						   systemd-path 						   SYSTEMD-PATH(1)

NAME
systemd-path - List and query system and user paths SYNOPSIS
systemd-path [OPTIONS...] [NAME...] DESCRIPTION
systemd-path may be used to query system and user paths. The tool makes many of the paths described in file-hierarchy(7) available for querying. When invoked without arguments, a list of known paths and their current values is shown. When at least one argument is passed, the path with this name is queried and its value shown. The variables whose name begins with "search-" do not refer to individual paths, but instead to a list of colon-separated search paths, in their order of precedence. OPTIONS
The following options are understood: --suffix= The printed paths are suffixed by the specified string. -h, --help Print a short help text and exit. --version Print a short version string and exit. EXIT STATUS
On success, 0 is returned, a non-zero failure code otherwise. SEE ALSO
systemd(1), file-hierarchy(7) systemd 237 SYSTEMD-PATH(1)
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