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=== Adding custom directories to the system PATH ===
=== Adding custom directories to the system PATH ===
<source lang='bash'>


PATH=$PATH:$HOME/bin:$HOME/bin/bin
PATH=$PATH:$HOME/bin:$HOME/bin/bin


export PATH
export PATH
</source>


=== Increase number of commands remembered in the history ===
=== Increase number of commands remembered in the history ===

Revision as of 16:01, 8 December 2013

Environment Variables

Modify .bashrc and .bash_profile

Adding custom directories to the system PATH

<source lang='bash'>

PATH=$PATH:$HOME/bin:$HOME/bin/bin

export PATH </source>

Increase number of commands remembered in the history

<source lang='bash'>

  1. Maximum numbers of lines that can be written to the file

export HISTFILESIZE=100000

  1. Change this to a reasonable number of lines to save

export HISTSIZE=100000 </source>

See also

External links