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I am trying to add ~/.bin into my path and for that I edited the .bash_profile and added the below line

PATH=$PATH:$HOME/.bin/

and than I logged out/in.

Now when I do echo $PATH I get

/usr/lib/lightdm/lightdm:/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/bin:/usr/games

and you can see there is no ~/.bin directory added .

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You should try to source .bash_profile, and echo $PATH to see if your path got updated. If yes, it means your .bash_profile is not read upon log-in.

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source .bash_profile worked. How can I make sure that .bash_profile is read upon log-in. – Noob Sep 6 '12 at 11:21
Well, it's kind of hard to answer, it depends how you login. You can read the section INVOCATION of man bash to see which file is read when... – m4573r Sep 6 '12 at 11:24
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@Noob: This might give you some insight. – RanRag Sep 6 '12 at 11:25
I think your problem is that you want to put the line in ~/.bashrc instead. – m4573r Sep 6 '12 at 11:26
But I thought that to add a folder to path .bash_profile is the file to be edited and not .bashrc. – Noob Sep 6 '12 at 11:27
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