Adding a Directory to a Path in .profile

Solution 1:

• The code in the if statement is only used if there's a directory $HOME/bin is a directory
• I needs to be /home/vincent/google_appengine instead of home/vincent/google_appengine or (even better) $HOME/google_appengine because home is relative and /home is absolute.

Use

export PATH="$PATH:$HOME/google_appengine"

Remember anything in the $PATH before google_appengine will override it.

Solution 2:

Add this line at the end of .profile(or not inside an if statement):

export PATH=$PATH:/home/vincent/google_appengine

Example .profile :

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export LC_COLLATE="en_US.UTF-8"

export PATH=$PATH:/home/vincent/google_appengine