On Mon, Jul 13, 2009 at 02:08:55PM +0200, Ondřej Vašík wrote: > 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. I would only want this at the *end* of the current PATH, not the beginning, for obvious security reasons. -- Paul W. Frields http://paul.frields.org/ gpg fingerprint: 3DA6 A0AC 6D58 FEC4 0233 5906 ACDB C937 BD11 3717 http://redhat.com/ - - - - http://pfrields.fedorapeople.org/ irc.freenode.net: stickster @ #fedora-docs, #fedora-devel, #fredlug -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
