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How to correctly add a path to PATH?
I'm wondering where a new path has to be added to PATH environment variable. I know this is accomplished editing .bash_rc (for example), but it's not clear how to do this.
This way:
export ...
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.bashrc doesn't get executed
I have a user (non-root) which has a ~/.bashrc file with some aliases in it.
But it doesn't look like the file is executed at log in time. If I do source ~/.bashrc then it does what it's supposed to. ...
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What is the difference between ~/.profile, ~/.bashrc, ~/.bash_profile, ~/.gnomerc, /etc/bash_bashrc, /etc/screenrc …?
Answers to the questions on SO and askubuntu, along with poking through (and reading headers of) $HOME and /etc/, indicate a number of files that can be used to set environment variables, including:
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.bashrc overwritten but still sourced — how can it be recovered?
Usually when I find a command I want to alias, I echo it to my .bashrc like so:
[up button pressed to last command, then line edited so that it reads]
$echo "command-i-just-did" >> ~/.bashrc
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