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Top Forums UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers Configure $PATH in /.bash_profile or /etc/paths? Post 302601184 by Alexander4444 on Thursday 23rd of February 2012 04:43:09 AM
Old 02-23-2012
Configure $PATH in /.bash_profile or /etc/paths?
Hi - I am trying to include the MSQ.exe that I have downloaded for the sake of learning. My current /.bash_profile file reads:


PATH=/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/3.1/bin:/Applications/XAMPP/xamppfiles/bin:$PATH
export PATH

-----------------------------------

interestingly, another file, /etc/paths reads:

/usr/bin
/bin
/usr/sbin
/sbin
/usr/local/bin

-----------------------------------


at the prompt, if I$ echo $PATH I get


/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/3.1/bin:/Applications/XAMPP/xamppfiles/bin:/usr/bin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/X11/bin


almost a combination of the two minus the /usr/X11/bin.


What must I do to include all of the $PATH variable into either /.bash_profile or /etc/paths? Which one do I put it in? Which ever one it is, that is where I will put the path the the MSQ.exe file.

Lastly, what is telling the OS where to find the $PATH variable in the first place? It seems like there must be some instruction that is causing the OS to look in those two different places.

---------- Post updated at 04:43 AM ---------- Previous update was at 04:41 AM ----------

Thanks for any and all help on this!
 

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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/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/pfcsh,  /usr/bin/pfksh,
       /usr/bin/pfsh, and /usr/bin/sh, /usr/bin/tcsh, /usr/bin/zsh. Note that /etc/shells overrides the default list.

       Invalid shells in /etc/shells may cause unexpected behavior (such as being unable to log in by way of ftp(1)).

FILES

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SEE ALSO

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