06-20-2011
if i go to etc/profile I see different path than /usr/bin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/bin/usr/sbin:/usr/ucb:/usr/local/bin
So where is this PATH variable located?
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Originally Posted by
Corona688
Put export variable=whatever in your ~/.bash_profile and it should get run when you run bash -l.
So for setting global variable which means if i log in to 2 instances of putty and see the same path variable I need to modify ~/.bash_profile??? Is that correct???
What about the .profile in my home directory?? How is that different??
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shells
shells(4) File Formats shells(4)
NAME
shells - shell database
SYNOPSIS
/etc/shells
DESCRIPTION
The shells file contains a list of the shells on the system. Applications use this file to determine whether a shell is valid. See getuser-
shell(3C). For each shell a single line should be present, consisting of the shell's path, relative to root.
A hash mark (#) indicates the beginning of a comment; subsequent characters up to the end of the line are not interpreted by the routines
which search the file. Blank lines are also ignored.
The following default shells are used by utilities: /bin/bash, /bin/csh, /bin/jsh, /bin/ksh, /bin/ksh93, /bin/pfcsh, /bin/pfksh, /bin/pfsh,
/bin/sh, /bin/tcsh, /bin/zsh, /sbin/jsh, /sbin/sh, /usr/bin/bash, /usr/bin/csh, /usr/bin/jsh, /usr/bin/ksh, /usr/bin/ksh93, /usr/bin/pfcsh,
/usr/bin/pfksh, /usr/bin/pfsh, and /usr/bin/sh, /usr/bin/tcsh, /usr/bin/zsh, and /usr/sfw/bin/zsh. /etc/shells overrides the default list.
Invalid shells in /etc/shells could cause unexpected behavior, such as being unable to log in by way of ftp(1).
FILES
/etc/shells list of shells on system
SEE ALSO
vipw(1B), ftpd(1M), sendmail(1M), getusershell(3C), aliases(4)
SunOS 5.11 20 Nov 2007 shells(4)