On Thu, 2008-05-29 at 05:15 -0400, Matthew Saltzman wrote:
On Wed, 2008-05-28 at 23:00 -0430, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote:
> On Wed, 2008-05-28 at 21:31 -0400, Marc Ferguson wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > The PATH variable seems to already have a value in it:
> >
> > PATH=$PATH:$HOME/bin
>
> I should hope so. $PATH is where the Shell looks for commands to
> execute. It's a list of directories to look in.
>
> lspci and friends are in /sbin (or sometimes in /usr/sbin). /sbin/lspci
> etc. will run them. Or do this in .bash_profile:
>
> PATH=/sbin:/usr/sbin:$PATH
Better is
PATH=$PATH:/sbin:/usr/sbin
There are some programs with the same name in both /bin and /sbin
and /usr/bin and /usr/sbin that behave differently. If you are a
regular user, you want the /bin and /usr/bin ones, not the /sbin
and /usr/sbim ones.
Yes, but in the context of the question I'm assuming he's root, when you
want it the other way round.
poc