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Top Forums UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers Path variable in Linux? Post 302850569 by bakunin on Thursday 5th of September 2013 03:38:44 AM
Old 09-05-2013
Not quite.

The .profile is not the right place to put a PATH variable. ~/.profile is executed exactly once: when a user logs in (actually it is started by the login process). But perhaps you want to set the PATH variable anew each time you start a new shell, not once in your session, don't you? For this you have to put the PATH into the rc-file of the shell, depending on which shell you use this would be ~/.kshrc, ~/.cshrc, ~/.bashrc or a similar file.

I hope this helps.

bakunin
 

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rdf::query::algebra::path

RDF::Query::Algebra::Path(3pm)				User Contributed Perl Documentation			    RDF::Query::Algebra::Path(3pm)

NAME

       RDF::Query::Algebra::Path - Algebra class for path patterns

VERSION

       This document describes RDF::Query::Algebra::Path version 2.908.

METHODS

       Beyond the methods documented below, this class inherits methods from the RDF::Query::Algebra class.

       "new ( $start, [ $op, @paths ], $end, $graph )"
	   Returns a new Path structure.

       "construct_args"
	   Returns a list of arguments that, passed to this class' constructor, will produce a clone of this algebra pattern.

       "path"
	   Returns the path description for this path expression.

       "start"
	   Returns the path origin node.

       "end"
	   Returns the path destination node.

       "graph"
	   Returns the named graph.

       "distinguish_bnode_variables"
	   Returns a new Path object with blank nodes replaced by distinguished variables.

       "bounded_length"
	   Returns true if the path is of bounded length.

       "sse"
	   Returns the SSE string for this algebra expression.

       "as_sparql"
	   Returns the SPARQL string for this algebra expression.

       "type"
	   Returns the type of this algebra expression.

       "referenced_variables"
	   Returns a list of the variable names used in this algebra expression.

       "potentially_bound"
	   Returns a list of the variable names used in this algebra expression that will bind values during execution.

       "definite_variables"
	   Returns a list of the variable names that will be bound after evaluating this algebra expression.

AUTHOR

	Gregory Todd Williams <gwilliams@cpan.org>

perl v5.14.2							    2012-01-31					    RDF::Query::Algebra::Path(3pm)
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