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[Peter Hindrichs]

On 2009-09-29, at 20:31 , Ryan Schmidt wrote:

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> On Sep 29, 2009, at 19:09, Peter Hindrichs wrote:
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>> On 2009-09-29, at 19:59 , Ryan Schmidt wrote:
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>>> On Sep 29, 2009, at 18:54, Peter Hindrichs wrote:
>>>
>>>> Just doing some re reading of your website and was wondering if  
>>>> this path is acceptable.
>>>> It seems rather long compared to your example.
>>>> If it is, what can I do to clean this up ?
>>>
>>>
>>>> PATH=/opt/local/bin:/opt/local/sbin:/opt/local/bin:/opt/local/ 
>>>> sbin:/usr/bin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/X11/bin
>>>
>>>
>>> Well, /opt/local/bin and /opt/local/sbin are specified twice, and  
>>> don't need to be. Investigate where in your shell init scripts the  
>>> path is being set, and see if you are perhaps adding the MacPorts  
>>> paths to it in two different places. If so, remove one.
>>
>> Pardon my ignorance how do I go about doing this.
>

> So now how do I safely remove the extraneous   parts of this PATH ?


> I see your shell is bash:
>
>>>> SHELL=/bin/bash
>
>
> Bash might look in one of several files for its initialization  
> instructions. These files are  
> called .profile, .bash_profile, .bashrc, .login, and .bash_login,  
> and would be directly in your home directory. Which of those files  
> do you have, and what is their contents?
>
>
>>> You also have /usr/local/bin in your path, and it is not supported  
>>> to have anything in /usr/local/bin (lib, include, etc.) when using  
>>> MacPorts because it can interfere, so I recommend you remove that  
>>> from your path and remove whatever you have in /usr/local/bit  
>>> (lib, include, etc.) as well.
>>
>> Again the same here.
>
> What's in /usr/local? Find out with:
>
> find /usr/local
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>