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Subject: Re: Path/.bashrc - aliases/scripts From: taj@cyber-wizard.com Date: Thu, 20 May 1999 12:30:11 -0700 (PDT) On Wed, 5 Jan 2000 mepr@ilnk.com wrote: > The idea is to put an alias for each script in .bash_profile. There > is probably a "correct" place to put aliases, and I would like to know > what it is. The proper place is .bashrc. If you want something to be universal, place it in /etc/bashrc, which is automatically sourced by the default .bashrc in /etc/skel (and by extension in your users' ~/.bashrc). === Subject: Re: Where does PATH get initialized? From: Steve Borho <sborho@ststech.com> Date: Wed, 16 Jun 1999 09:58:07 -0500 On Wed, Jun 16, 1999 at 09:55:39AM +0100, Hans Juergen von Lengerke wrote: > I've got this minor annoyance where my PATH environment variable contains > /usr/bin twice: > > [hans]$ printenv PATH > /usr/bin:/usr/local/bin:/bin:/usr/bin:/usr/X11R6/bin:/home/hans/bin:. > > I've grepped everything in my home directory and in /etc > to see where /usr/bin gets set but couldn't find any. ~/.bash_profile sets > $PATH:$HOME/bin:. and /etc/profile sets $PATH:/usr/X11R6/bin. However, I > have no idea where the rest of the path gets initialize (I'm assuming that > it gets initialized before /etc/profile is read). > > Any pointers would be greatly appreciated. did you look in /etc/profile.d? === Subject: Re: Where does PATH get initialized? From: Steve Borho <sborho@ststech.com> Date: Wed, 16 Jun 1999 15:05:32 -0500 On Wed, Jun 16, 1999 at 05:56:04PM +0100, Hans Juergen von Lengerke wrote: > On Wed, 16 Jun 1999, Steve Borho wrote: > > > did you look in /etc/profile.d? > > Yep. Nothing :-( > > [hans]$ ls /etc/profile.d > kde.csh kde.sh lang.sh > [hans]$ grep -i path /etc/profile.d/* > /etc/profile.d/kde.csh:setenv PATH "${KDEDIR}/bin:${PATH}" > /etc/profile.d/kde.sh: PATH="$KDEDIR/bin:$PATH" > /etc/profile.d/kde.sh:export KDEDIR PATH > [hans]$ Under RH 6.0, isn't KDEDIR=/usr? ===