lautan@lemmy.ca to Linux@lemmy.ml · 5 months agoTips on how to structure your home directoryunixdigest.comexternal-linkmessage-square13fedilinkarrow-up10arrow-down10
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minus-square30p87@feddit.delinkfedilinkarrow-up0·5 months agoIsn’t ~/.local for such manually installed stuff, like /usr/local instead of /usr?
minus-squareatzanteol@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·5 months ago.local is a pretty recent convention for somebody who has used BeOS. I long ago just created $HOME/bin and added it to my path. And it works when I compile things with “–prefix=$HOME”.
minus-squareBjörn Tantau@swg-empire.delinkfedilinkarrow-up0·5 months agoOpenSUSE automatically adds ~/bin and ~/.local/bin to your $PATH if they exist.
minus-squareatzanteol@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·5 months agoNice, other distros may do it now too. It’s been a part of my .bash_local for so long I wouldn’t notice…
minus-squaretheshatterstone54@feddit.uklinkfedilinkarrow-up0·5 months agoAny reason why yould have it in .bash_local over .bashrc? I use zsh but even when I used bash or fish, I’d add to my $PATH via .bashrc and config.fish respectively.
Isn’t ~/.local for such manually installed stuff, like /usr/local instead of /usr?
.local is a pretty recent convention for somebody who has used BeOS.
I long ago just created $HOME/bin and added it to my path. And it works when I compile things with “–prefix=$HOME”.
OpenSUSE automatically adds ~/bin and ~/.local/bin to your $PATH if they exist.
Nice, other distros may do it now too. It’s been a part of my .bash_local for so long I wouldn’t notice…
Any reason why yould have it in .bash_local over .bashrc? I use zsh but even when I used bash or fish, I’d add to my $PATH via .bashrc and config.fish respectively.