Appending text to the end of line one in /etc/PATH

[Neil Herring_1]

I need to add a path variable to all my servers and would like to send out the text "/usr/local/bin" and have this added to the end of the line in /etc/PATH.

I have no idea how this might be achieved as sed seems a bit limited for the task.

[harry d brown jr]

vi

or

echo ":NEWPATH" >> /etc/PATH

This is truely extremely BASIC stuff.

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harry d brown jr

[Pete Randall]

echo `head -1 /etc/PATH`":/usr/local/bin" > /etc/PATH


Pete

[Pete Randall]

And, by the way, I expect (and, in fact, would hope) your /etc/PATH only has one line in it, so Harry's solution is even simpler.


Pete

[Neil Herring_1]

Thanks Peter

It was the "head -1" command that I was missing. A simple "echo :/usr/local/bin" into the /etc/PATH just adds it as a 2nd line, which was my problem as I wanted it appended to line 1.

Cheers muchly

Neil

[harry d brown jr]

I think the "head" option is better because most /etc/PATH files have a NEWLINE at the end, thus an append won't work unless that NEWLINE is stripped out.

Oh well.

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harry d brown jr

[Neil Herring_1]

Thanks to Peter

I now have a solution

Great stuff.

Cheers