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# 1  
Old 10-25-2012
Unable to set my PATH variable
Hello All,

Hope you can understand my problem from the below code.

Code:
$ cat ~/.profile
PS1=`whoami`@`hostname`':$PWD
$ '
export PATH="$PATH:.:/logarchive/utility/util:/usr/sbin:"
$ echo $PATH
/usr/kerberos/bin:/usr/local/bin:/bin:/usr/bin:.:/usr/sbin:
$ echo $SHELL
/usr/bin/ksh

Please help me..
# 2  
Old 10-25-2012
Just use..Smilie

Code:
PATH="/logarchive/utility/util:/usr/sbin:"

Or like this..

Code:
export PATH=$PATH:/logarchive/utility/util:/usr/sbin

or

Code:
PATH="/logarchive/utility/util:/usr/sbin" ; export PATH

Last edited by pamu; 10-25-2012 at 08:24 AM..
# 3  
Old 10-25-2012
No luck Pamu.

Code:
echo $PATH
/usr/kerberos/bin:/usr/local/bin:/bin:/usr/bin:.:/usr/sbin:
$ cat ~/.profile
PS1=`whoami`@`hostname`':$PWD
$ '
export PATH=$PATH:/logarchive/utility/util:/usr/sbin

# 4  
Old 10-25-2012
Quote:
Originally Posted by sathyaonnuix
No luck Pamu.
What you are trying to achieve...?
# 5  
Old 10-25-2012
My scripts inside /logarchive/utility/util should be used anywhere from my Box
# 6  
Old 10-25-2012
Quote:
Originally Posted by sathyaonnuix
My scripts inside /logarchive/utility/util should be used anywhere from my Box
So what's the problem...???

You can call your script from anywhere. Just give the script path.

PATH is not which should be useful here as per my opinion.

Please explain in detail what you want to do...?
# 7  
Old 10-25-2012
Quote:
export PATH="$PATH:.:/logarchive/utility/util:/usr/sbin:"
Never ever ever put . in your path. It won't work right. It will cause things after it to have errors. Everything in PATH must be an absolute path.
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