[oclug] set $PATH

[Glenn Jackman]

On 2003-07-10 16:11, Patrick Smith wrote:
> Patrick Smith wrote:
> >export PATH=$PATH:$(ls -d /opt/OpenOffice.org*/program | tr \\12 : )
> 
> Just one more note:
> 
> This will give you a path ending with a colon.  That's equivalent to 
> having the current directory at the end of your path, which isn't always 
> a good idea, for security reasons.  A simple way to fix this is to 
> repeat something from the beginning of your path at the end:
> 
> export PATH=$PATH:$(ls -d /opt/OpenOffice.org*/program | tr \\12 : )/bin

Or, remove the trailing colon

    export PATH=$PATH:`ls -d /opt/OpenOffice.org*/program | tr \\\n :`
    PATH=${PATH%:}

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Glenn Jackman
NCF Sysadmin
glennj at ncf.ca