Re: Path problem with xterm

["John Emmas" <johne53 at tiscali dot co dot uk>]

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Ken Brown"
> Most of the extra entries probably come from the various bash startup
> files (including /etc/profile).  These startup files will be invoked every
> time you start a new bash login shell.
It looks like you're right about this Ken.  Many of the scripts and batch
files just blindly add their directory requirements to my path without
checking whether the path already contained them.

Havng said that, some of the scripting models (e.g. for processing batch
files) might not have adequate tools for doing an intelligent check, so it
looks like this is something I'll just have to live with....  :-(

It is quite annoying though because most applications that need to search
the user's path don't seem to do it intelligently either -  and so the same
folders keep getting searched over and over again.

Thanks anyway,

John 


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