[nmglug] editing bash

[Nick Frost]

BrianO'Keefe wrote:
> Thanks Brendan. I'm pasting the syntax corrections as I understand you 
> (which is a stretch given my experience with this!). Is this correct?
>
> export AEJHOME=home/ubuntu/Downloads/aej90exe
> export LD_LIBRARY_PATH=$AEJHOME/lib
> export PATH=$PATH:/usr/local/aejhome/bin
If I am not mistaken, your entry for AEJHOME appears incorrect, in that 
I believe you want to prepend a "/", e.g.

export AEJHOME=/home/ubuntu/Downloads/aej90exe

for what is called and "absolute path" instead of a relative path.

-Nick



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> Brendan wrote:
>> BrianO'Keefe wrote:
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>>> Thanks Nick. I added the variables from your last email as best I could:
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>>> export AEJHOME home/ubuntu/Downloads/aej90exe
>>> export LD_LIBRARY_PATH $AEJHOME/lib
>>> export PATH= $PATH:/usr/local/aejhome/bin
>>>     
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>> The syntax is "export NAME=value".  Note there's an = between the name 
>> and the value, and there is no space at all.  Add = signs, remove your 
>> spaces and try again.
>>
>> FWIW, you could switch your shell to csh or tcsh if you have that 
>> installed.  Use the chsh command to change shells.
>>
>> -Brendan
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