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export PATH not in ~/.profile

Asked by Dony Thomas

Hi

I'm new to linux and I'm wondering why export PATH is not in ~/.profile

my ~/.profile says:

# set PATH so it includes user's private bin if it exists
if [ -d "$HOME/bin" ] ; then
    PATH="$HOME/bin:$PATH"
fi

Note that there is no export PATH.

If export PATH is not present, how is it getting set globally?

When I open an interactive non login shell and issue ~$ echo "$PATH", I'm able to see $HOME/bin in it. Am I missing something?

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actionparsnip (andrew-woodhead666) said : 		#1

Why do you need the if statement?

If you want to add to the global path just run:

gedit ~/.bashrc

at the bottom, add:

export PATH=$PATH:$HOME/bin

Save the new file and close gedit, then run:

source ~/.bashrc

The folder is now in the PATH

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