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Asked: 2026-06-18T10:22:51+00:00

Every time I install a new program must I add it’s subdirectory to PATH?

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Every time I install a new program must I add it’s subdirectory to PATH? or does this statement cover all subdirectories?:PATH=$PATH:~/local/bin in my .bashrc

If I must add every subdirectory to PATH is there an automated solution that I can place in .bashrc? So that on startup it checks all subdirectories against PATH, if FALSE update?

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  1. Editorial Team

    If it’s indeed the case that you have directories under $HOME/local/bin like

    $HOME/local/bin/atool
$HOME/local/bin/btool
$HOME/local/bin/ctool

    and you’d like each of these to be in your $PATH then you can do the following in your .bashrc or probably your .bash_login as you wouldn’t want this done every time you start a bash session from an existing one.

    MYLOCALPATH=`find $HOME/local/bin -type d -depth 1 | paste -s -d : -`
PATH=$PATH:$MYLOCALPATH

    If that’s not the case then perhaps you could be a bit more specific in whats not happening for you as usually exes are usually installed in <somewhere>/bin and even if they’re not for versioning reasons they’ll usually be linked there.

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