Stefan Assmann wrote:
Hi all,
I was wondering why there's no $HOME/bin directory and $HOME/bin not mentioned in the $PATH variable. Any particular reason not to have that by default?
$HOME/bin is not on every system and the other default directories in default PATH are(at least on the most of systems ;) ). However, some Linux distros do add something as: # set PATH so it includes user's private bin if it exists if [ -d "$HOME/bin" ] ; then PATH="$HOME/bin:$PATH" fi as default - so this dir gets added automatically when does exist. I'm generally +1 for changing the default that way - as it would not change anything for users without that directory.
Greetings, Ondřej Vašík