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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting Can't add directory to path correctly Post 302768755 by tastybrownies on Saturday 9th of February 2013 12:27:09 PM
Old 02-09-2013
Can't add directory to path correctly
Hello everyone I am a newcomer to UNIX and I have hit a snag in something that would probably take experienced people about 30 seconds. Long story short I am trying to add a directory to my PATH and it is getting added but not working. I mean, the object of adding it to the path is so I can access it anywhere in my terminal right?

I am also confused about delimiters needed in tschrc. Do I need colons or not?

I used the command:

Code:
echo ' set PATH = ($PATH /usr/local/bin:/c4251/bin:)' >> ~/.cshrc

this added the directory permanently to the end of my path but i cannot access it from my home directory so what good is it?

I echoed my path and this is what I saw:

Code:
/usr/class/sce/bin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/local/matlab/bin:/usr/local/maple/bin:/usr/bin:/bin:.:/usr/lib64/qt-3.3/bin:/usr/NX/bin:/usr/class/sce/bin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/local/matlab/bin:/usr/local/maple/bin:/usr/bin:/bin:.:/usr/local/bin:/bin:/usr/bin:/opt/dell/srvadmin/bin :/usr/local/bin:/c4251/bin

I added in colons because it appeared the other entries had them. Does this not work because there is a space in between the last entries? If this is the problem how to I correct this? Any help would be greatly appreciated. I am a beginner in UNIX!
 

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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)

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