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Top Forums UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers How to add to the search path - bin? Post 302901773 by OmarKN on Thursday 15th of May 2014 01:57:09 PM
Old 05-15-2014
How to add to the search path - bin?

Hi,
Now I have: /Users/okn/bin for my private shell scripts.

How do I add /Users/okn/bin to my PATH?

The PATH is right now:

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

The .bash_profile doesn't state anything about a PATH (yet).

I read about this:
Code:
PATH=/bin:$PATH

export PATH

or
Code:
PATH=$PATH\:/dir/path ; export PATH

What should I write into the .bash_profile?
I'm afraid I could harm the OS.

with best regards,
Omar K N
Stockholm, Sweden
 

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