From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Oct 4 14: 8:43 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mailhub.cns.ksu.edu (grunt.ksu.ksu.edu [129.130.12.17]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 288A337B66C for ; Wed, 4 Oct 2000 14:08:39 -0700 (PDT) Received: from unix1 (jdt2101@unix1.cc.ksu.edu [129.130.12.3]) by mailhub.cns.ksu.edu (8.9.1/8.9.1/mailhub+tar) with SMTP id QAA24271 for ; Wed, 4 Oct 2000 16:08:33 -0500 (CDT) Received: from localhost by unix1 (SMI-8.6/1.34) id QAA09881; Wed, 4 Oct 2000 16:08:33 -0500 Date: Wed, 4 Oct 2000 16:08:33 -0500 (CDT) From: Joshua Delong Thomas X-Sender: jdt2101@unix1.cc.ksu.edu To: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: exporting PATH to shell rc files Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG I'm mystified by some error (I guess) messages I get when I try to export paths to search for executables. My .bashrc looks like this: export PS1="\\[\\033[1;32m\\]\\w\\[\\033[0m\\]\\\$" export PATH= "/home/thatguy/bin:/bin:/usr/bin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/X11R6/bin:/usr/X11R6/bin" When I run bash I get this: declare -x (All environment variables)=whatever the default is And now the path isn't working at all. Am I an idiot? Should I put the export statement somewhere else? Thanks, Josh To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message