RE: [patch] adding ~/bin to path

["Erdely, Michael" <mike at erdelynet dot com>]

So... I guess I don't understand the problem.  If you want system wide shell
changes, you add them to /etc/profile.  If you want user specific changes,
you add them to (in this case) $HOME/.bashrc.

I'd make the global changes in /etc/profile and be done with it.  If you add
$HOME/bin or ~/bin to the path, you'll reach your goal.

Or maybe I'm oversimplifying.

-ME

-----Original Message-----
From: cygwin-owner@sources.redhat.com
[mailto:cygwin-owner@sources.redhat.com]On Behalf Of Chris Abbey
Sent: Sunday, December 03, 2000 12:22 AM
To: cygwin@sources.redhat.com
Subject: RE: [patch] adding ~/bin to path


At 23:56 12/2/00 -0500, Erdely, Michael wrote:
>Pardon me if I misunderstand, but I just added this line to ~/.bashrc:
>export PATH=$HOME/bin:$PATH
>
>Exited bash and reopened bash.
>echo $PATH returned the old path with "/home/mike/bin:" in front of it.

yup, that's the objective. But ~/.bashrc isn't shipped by default,
/etc/profile is. Putting it in ~/.bashrc also puts the responsibility
on each user, whereas putting it in /etc/profile has the system
do it, just like every *nix I've ever worked on.

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