Automating additions to the $PATH

[Pat Morrow]

You might want to try setting up an alias for the path name and then
the user would only need to type in the alias (which would call a 
scrip to cd pathname).  No guarantees that this will work, as I have
not tried an alias in GRASS, but they work well under UNIX, AIX and 
Linux.
In article <{a16dhoover2541440570}@bnr.ca>, a16dhoover at attmail.com 
says...
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>Greetings from Idaho!
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>One of our offices wants to have some way to automatically add a
>$LOCATION/scripts directory to their $PATH so they can execute
>scripts they have written that are unique to that MAPSET dealing
>with data display, data manipulation, and analysis.
>
>I tried adding commands like:
>     PATH=$PATH:$LOCATION/scripts
>      export PATH
>to the grass4.1 start-up script in the $HOME directory or adding
>the script to a set.pathname script in the $GISBASE/scripts
>directory, but to no avail.
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>This would help save time for the user so they would not have to
>cd to the scripts directory every time they want to run one of their
>scripts.
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>Any help would be appreciated in automating this path setting procedure.
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>Thanks in advance -
>
>David Hoover
>State GIS Coordinator
>USDA-NRCS
>a16dhoover at attmail.com
>208 334 1525
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