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Is it possible to find out which files are setting/adding to environment variables, and their order of precedence?
I am a Linux novice. I would like to edit my PATH (which I am able to view using the command $ echo $PATH), but when I am in my root/home directory (~), it appears that the file .bashrc contains only the following text:
# Sample .bashrc for SuSE Linux
# Copyright (c) SuSE GmbH Nuernberg
# There are 3 different types of shells in bash: the login shell, normal shell
# and interactive shell. Login shells read ~/.profile and interactive shells
# read ~/.bashrc; in our setup, /etc/profile sources ~/.bashrc - thus all
# settings made here will also take effect in a login shell.
#
# NOTE: It is recommended to make language settings in ~/.profile rather than
# here, since multilingual X sessions would not work properly if LANG is over-
# ridden in every subshell.
# Some applications read the EDITOR variable to determine your favourite text
# editor. So uncomment the line below and enter the editor of your choice :-)
#export EDITOR=/usr/bin/vim
#export EDITOR=/usr/bin/mcedit
# For some news readers it makes sense to specify the NEWSSERVER variable here
#export NEWSSERVER=your.news.server
# If you want to use a Palm device with Linux, uncomment the two lines below.
# For some (older) Palm Pilots, you might need to set a lower baud rate
# e.g. 57600 or 38400; lowest is 9600 (very slow!)
#
#export PILOTPORT=/dev/pilot
#export PILOTRATE=115200
test -s ~/.alias && . ~/.alias || true
where I have opened .bashrc using the command $ vi .bashrc.
By the way, when I type the command
$ echo $PATH
I obtain the following output:
/usr/lib64/mpi/gcc/openmpi/bin:/usr/local/gromacs/bin:/export/home/adeyoung/bin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/bin:/bin:/usr/bin/X11:/usr/X11R6/bin:/usr/games:/opt/kde3/bin:/opt/intel/Compiler/11.0/074/bin/intel64:/usr/lib/mit/bin:/usr/lib/mit/sbin:/usr/lib/qt3/bin
Do you think that I am looking in the correct file for my PATH? Thank you very much for your time.
