How to set PATH for tracert command?

[Olugbenga Gbonjubola]

Hello All,

Please, how do I set the PATH for the linux command tracert so that I will not need to run it with /usr/sbin/tracert but with only the command tracert? And how do I configure the $PATH to include both /usr/sbin and /sbin? I use the bash shell.

Thanks in advance.

Olugbenga.

[Alexander Chuzhoy]

do you mean traceroute?


the command to set path:


export PATH=$PATH:/usr/sbin


to add /usr/sbin to path
or
export PATH=$PATH:/sbin
to add /sbin to the PATH

[Olugbenga Gbonjubola]

I mean tracert (for Linux). The traceroute is for the Solaris environment.

Thanks so much.

Olugbenga.

[Olivier Drouin]

PATH=$PATH:/usr/sbin/
export PATH

in 1 of these files:

/etc/profile
~/.profile
~/.bash_rc

...assuming you use bash, which is "teh best" (c).

[Kiyoshi Miyake]

Hi,

if you want set path for ONLY tracert,
you should not add path(/sbin) to $PATH.
you should use alias.

in .bashrc
alias tracert=/usr/sbin/tracrt

thanks.

[Steven E. Protter]

Last I checked, the command for Linux is traceroute, not tracert

tracert is for Windows.

SEP

[Yong_7]

hi,

to be cautious person, what linux distro are you using ? is tracert a built-in command of that or someone renamed it to tracert to "align" with windoze command ?

hth.

YJ

[dirk dierickx]

Still, what braindead linux distro is going to use 'tracert' instead of 'traceroute'. I'm OK with it if it is a symbolic link or something, but if they actualy renamed the command, that would be pretty bad.