Environment variable not getting updated

English Programming/Scripting
#1

I added the following lines to my .bashrc

$PATH = "/home/ravi/bin/CodeSourcery/Sourcery_G++_Lite/bin/:$PATH"
export PATH

But the path is not getting appended.Moreover, i get the following output:

bash: /usr/bin:/home/ravi/bin:/usr/local/bin:/bin:/usr/bin/X11:/usr/X11R6/bin:/usr/games:/opt/kde3/bin:/usr/lib/mit/bin:/usr/lib/mit/sbin:/usr/lib/qt3/bin: No such file or directory

But i checked that all the directories do exist.Any clues?

#2

You should use
PATH=something

$PATH=something
is not correct.

#3

But PATH=something throws the following error:
bash: PATH: command not found

#4

No spaces around the =

#5

$PATH = “/home/ravi/bin/CodeSourcery/Sourcery_G++_Lite/bin/:$PATH”
export PATH
should be:
PATH = “/home/ravi/bin/CodeSourcery/Sourcery_G++_Lite/bin/:$PATH”
export PATH
or better yet
export PATH = /home/ravi/bin/CodeSourcery/Sourcery_G++_Lite/bin/:$PATH
the “No such file or directory” from the way you did it originally makes sense to old unix weenies, the “$” denotes the value of the variable. In essence, simply typing “$PATH” in a konsole is the equivalent of typing the whole value of your path and hitting enter.

#6

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Exactly, and to wrap it up you can combine those commands into one with
bash:

export PATH="/home/ravi/bin/CodeSourcery/Sourcery_G++_Lite/bin/:$PATH"

Good luck.

dgholstein wrote:
>> $PATH = “/home/ravi/bin/CodeSourcery/Sourcery_G++_Lite/bin/:$PATH”
>> export PATHshould be:> PATH = “/home/ravi/bin/CodeSourcery/Sourcery_G++_Lite/bin/:$PATH”
>> export PATHor better yet> export PATH = /home/ravi/bin/CodeSourcery/Sourcery_G++_Lite/bin/:$PATHthe “-No such file or directory-” from the way you did it originally
> makes sense to old unix weenies, the “$” denotes the value of the
> variable. In essence, simply typing “$PATH” in a konsole is the
> equivalent of typing the whole value of your path and hitting enter.
>
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#7

Thanks all

export PATH="/home/ravi/bin/CodeSourcery/Sourcery_G++_Lite/bin/:$PATH"

worked like a charm lol!

#8

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Good to hear. Thank-you for posting back your results.

Good luck.

thisisravi wrote:
> Thanks all
>
> Code:
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> export PATH="/home/ravi/bin/CodeSourcery/Sourcery_G++_Lite/bin/:$PATH"
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>
>
> worked like a charm lol!
>
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