Hi, I've a shell script problem. I want to add a string to my PATH variable in .profile. Regards Patrik

At some point before the line that says export PATH declare the following PATH=$PATH:/new/path/to/add

Hi, I know how to add a string to my PATH variable i .profile. I want to do this using a shell script. /Patrik

You want to modify /etc/profile in a script? I would have to see your /etc/profile to give you a solid answer, but you could do it with sed. #!/bin/sh if [ `echo $PATH | grep -c 'new_string'` -eq 0 ] ; then sed -e 's/distinct_string_to_match/\1:new_string/' /etc/profile > /tmp/profile && mv /tmp/profile /etc/profile fi

Hi, My .profile looks like this: ---------- # .bash_profile # Get the aliases and functions if [ -f ~/.bashrc ]; then . ~/.bashrc fi # User specific environment and startup programs PATH=$PATH:$HOME/bin:/usr/local/java/bin:/usr/local/jre/bin BASH_ENV=$HOME/.bashrc USERNAME="root" ORACLE_HOME=/oracle/product/ora9i CLASSPATH=$ORACLE_HOME/JRE:$ORACLE_HOME/jlib:$ORACLE_HOME/rdbms/jlib:$ORACLE_HOME/network/jlib:/usr/local/java:/usr/local/jre export USERNAME BASH_ENV PATH CLASSPATH ORACLE_HOME ----------- I want to add a string to the PATH variable in a shell script. I've tried with sed, but with no luck. Regards Patrik

So you have a line that begins with PATH. This makes matching easy. Does this make it more clear sed -e 's,^PATH=$PATH,PATH=$PATH:/new/path,' /etc/profile > /tmp/new-profile diff /etc/profile /tmp/new-profile

Thanks, now it's working perfect. /Patrik