[NTLUG:Discuss] adding to the path

[Richard Cobbe]

Lo, on Monday, November 13, Stephen Klein did write:

> Just remember, if you want to make that path permenant, put it in your
> /etc/profile file.  Else it will go back to what it was before when you
> logout and log back in.

/etc/profile is good if you want the path to be available for all users on
the system---or, more accurately, all users on the system who use those
shells that read /etc/profile.  csh and descendants use /etc/csh.login
instead.

Otherwise, put it in ~/.bash_login (or ~/.login, for csh).

Richard