Unix: Visual QuickStart Guide

Changing your ksh path

The path statement tells the shell where to look for commands, scripts, and programs. For example, if you issue a command, the path statement tells the system to look in the named directories in a specific order.

As the following steps show, you change your ksh path by first identifying where your path statement is located, then editing the file that contains it (Code Listing 8.10).

To change your ksh path:

1.	grep PATH ~/.profile ~/.kshrc To begin, check for path statements in the configuration files located in your home directory. If you wanted, you could also review the /etc/profile file, but you cannot edit that one.
2.	Look through your system configuration files for a path statement. As Code Listing 8.10 shows, ...