PATH variable problem

Shell Programming and Scripting
1

root->echo $PATH
/usr/ccs/bin:/opt/sfw/bin:/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin

root->find / -name gcc
/usr/local/bin/gcc
/usr/local/doc/gcc

root->which gcc
no gcc in /usr/sbin /usr/bin

Why cant it find gcc - the path looks okay doesnt it?

I am running solaris 9 - and my shell is csh.
.cshrc file looks like this:
set PATH="/usr/ccs/bin:/opt/sfw/bin:/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:$PATH"

2

At first you use syntax which seems to be sh and then state you are running csh. :confused:

Whichever, what does
printenv PATH
say? Are execute permissions set on gcc? With csh try "rehash".

3

try

export PATH="/usr/ccs/bin:/opt/sfw/bin:/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:$PATH"
or
setenv PATH="/usr/ccs/bin:/opt/sfw/bin:/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:$PATH"
4

No joy...

root->printenv PATH
printenv: Command not found

setenv PATH="/usr/ccs/bin:/opt/sfw/bin:/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:$PATH"
root->which gcc
no gcc in /usr/sbin /usr/bin

Any other ideas?

5

Obviously the "which" command is using a different path variable than PATH. I am not an expert in csh (I prefer bash), but I remember reading somewhere that the c-shell had a shell variable path and an environment variable PATH. Just for kicks and giggles, does echo $path give a different response than echo $PATH?

;

6

Try:
/usr/ucb/printenv PATH
/usr/bin/id
/usr/bin/ps -f
and post the results.

7

From the CSH man page

           The most commonly used environment
           variables, USER, TERM,  and  PATH,  are  automatically
           imported  to and exported from the csh variables user,
           term, and path; there is no need  to  use  setenv  for
           these. In addition, the shell sets the PWD environment
           variable from the csh variable cwd whenever the latter
           changes.

try the following:

$$> set path = ( /usr/ccs/bin /opt/sfw/bin /usr/local/sbin /usr/local/bin /usr/sbin /usr/bin )
$$> rehash
8

set path="$path /usr/ccs/bin /opt/sfw/bin /usr/local/sbin /usr/local/bin"

this worked... hmnn I thought the path variable was UPPERCASE..

Anyway - thanks - I was losing the plot altogether...