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Alireza
Asked: 2014-08-10 20:13:27 +0800 CST

why everything is reverted back in PATH env variable after reopening shell?

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As far as I know PATH is not a temporary variable. And when you reopen your terminal it should work as before. In my case it's not.

What I do is to add another path to $PATH: 

export PATH=$PATH:/usr/local/go/bin

It should append go dir to PATH variable and it does do that, but when I reopen terminal and echo $PATH my last appended path is cleared and I have my paths without /usr/local/go/bin at the end.

What is the reason this is happening? Is there something I'm doing wrong?

13.04

2 Answers

  1. Best Answer

    Put your permanent path changes into your .profile "reopening" is starting another terminal from scratch, and it get the PATH from the system (or your) PATH setups, not from some past session.

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  2. Variables are not temporary or persistent by nature, but you can change them either temporarily or persistently. It's well explained in the tutorial EnvironmentVariables.

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