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Re: How To Permanently Add-to a Users PATH Statement in the Bash Shell



On Tue, Jul 07, 2020 at 03:17:37PM +0100, Jonathan Dowland wrote:
> On Tue, Jul 07, 2020 at 04:14:16PM +0200, Nicolas George wrote:
> > cd ~/bin
> > ln -s ../opt/something/bin/something
> 
> Not in the default PATH either.

$HOME/bin is placed into the user's default PATH by Debian's ~/.profile
(the one in /etc/skel/.profile) if it exists at the time the ~/.profile
is read, if the ~/.profile is read at all.

As I keep saying, of course, what dot files actually get read depends
on how one logs in.


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