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Old 03-29-2007
How to set a path for a command?
Hi,

I install java at Fedora Core. So to run any java applications i have to write the complety path. For example,

/usr/java/jre1.5.0_11/bin/java "javafile"

I want to write only "java" but it said "command not found".

How i fix this?

Thank you very much

Lakis
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Old 03-29-2007
Add PATH in profile
In case if you use Korn Shell add this line to your ~/.profile

HTML Code:
export PATH=/usr/java/jre1.5.0_11/bin/java:$PATH
In case of bash add the above line to ~/.bash_profile


Thanks
Nagarajan Ganesan.
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Old 03-29-2007
I use bash but there is no such a thing "bash_profile".
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Old 03-29-2007
Quote:
Originally Posted by Lakis
I use bash but there is no such a thing "bash_profile".

There wud b a .bash_profile or .bashrc or create one if it doesn't exist
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Old 03-29-2007
ok i found .bashrc.

How i edit that file and where i should put that line?
 
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