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help made mistake with export and ~/.bashrc
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You didn't append this to your path, you just overwrote the whole value. You'll need to use full paths to commands to edit the file and fix it like
export PATH="$PATH:/the/new/path/to/add"should it look like this
export PATH=$PATH:/usr/sbin/grub-installand should i edit the ~/.bashrc
I'm a little late to the party, but
PATHshould only consist of the directories, so it should look like this:export PATH=$PATH:/usr/sbin/Also use "...", i.e.
export PATH="$PATH:.."so that it won't break with whitespace in paths involvedThe guy I'm replying to means quotation marks (
")That's true, although I thought you're talking about including the dots into the path, which is absolutely not what anyone wants 😄