When setting up the Android & Java SDKs on this system I had the same issue when defining the needed PATH variables and adding the library paths. I dug around and found that my current system has both ~/.bashrc and /etc/profile and that no matter what I tried defining them in ~/.bashrc & it wasn’t working, but commenting the lines out in ~/.bashrc and copying them to /etc/profile did exactly as expected.

I came to the conclusion that perhaps there’s an overwrite happening, but I’ve never had a chance to understand it further.

I am trying to change my $PATH and i did a vi on .bash_profile where i added this command:

export PATH=$PATH:/HOME/scripts

Then I saved the file and then i did a source ~/.bashrc, but my scripts file did not show up when i ran this command.

$ echo $PATH

WHAT did i do wrong? Respectfully request your help.

Thank you.
cajunchief

My system is Fedora 28 and the default shell is tcsh. I want to know how can I set permanent PATH? It is necessary to say that I do not have root access.

Before, I had Ubuntu, the default shell was BASH. So I used to edit .bashrc file.

Thanks,
Shima

I need help what happened if i run virtualenv in my environment path, what i mean is “chk@waklu:$ virtualenv” did the path environment is change on bashrc, profile, or even in the /etc/bash, /etc/profile.

The problem is, I cannot detect my python and when i try to echo path should get /usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/bin:/usr/games:/usr/local/games:/home/marin/bin
but I am getting blank, not showing up. Need help I run 16.04 Ubuntu.

“First, let’s see your current $PATH’s value. Open a terminal and issue the following command: echo $PATH”
Why can’t I just type “$PATH“? Seems to do the same thing.

I don’t see anything about path in my .bashrc file.

# cat .bashrc | grep PATH 

“$ export PATH=$PATH:/path/to/newdir”

What if I make an unnoticed typo; how do I fix that?