changing program paths

[smdawson]

I am writing shell scripts and want to be able to execute from the terminal by just entering the name. i.e.

smdawson@smdawson:~$ my_script

I am changing the searched paths like this

smdawson@smdawson:~$ export PATH=$PATH: /script_folder

This works for me and I can execute any shell script in the folder by typing the name in the terminal (i.e. my_script). However, if I close the terminal and come back, my changes are not saved. If I want to execute the shell script in the same way, I have to repeat the whole process of changing the searched paths, etc.

Any info on making these changes stick?

[geirha]

Add that line to ~/.profile . Then after you've logged out and back in, it should get sourced and $PATH will contain your script-folder.


echo "$PATH"

[smdawson]

I got it to save the changes. Thanks for the help.