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Full Discussion: .bashrc in Ubuntu 14.04
Operating Systems Linux Fedora .bashrc in Ubuntu 14.04 Post 302958401 by MadeInGermany on Wednesday 21st of October 2015 05:01:08 PM
Old 10-21-2015
Wrench Experts question: where add things to PATH?
As pointed out earlier,
Code:
PATH=${PATH}:/dir/to/add

in .bashrc can end up in multiple :/dir/to/add:/dir/to/add:..., because each nested shell runs another .bashrc at start-up.
Nothing to worry about, if there is no maximum length exceeded.
But isn't it worth to consider .profile as the better location? .profile is only run once in the first shell (login-shell). PATH is environment: a child shell will inherit it, nothing is lost.
Strange concepts like "dbus" in Linux break the native Unix parent/child relationship, but try to emulate it.
And don't the GUI/desktop/VNC/whatever logins run a login-shell?
 

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