How is ~/bin added to my path?

Posted by Hari Sundararajan on Ask Ubuntu See other posts from Ask Ubuntu or by Hari Sundararajan
Published on 2011-06-21T04:53:39Z Indexed on 2011/06/21 8:31 UTC
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I have not added ~/bin to any of my .bash* files. However, $PATH does list that directory.

The reason I am asking this in the Ubuntu specific StackExchange is because, well, I have exactly the same .bashrc, .bash_profile and .bash_aliases in both Fedora and Ubuntu machines (in fact, I have them on Dropbox and symlinked in ~) and in my Fedora machines, ~/bin is not added.

In other words, if I add ~/bin to my path by making an entry in .bashrc, it shows up once on Fedora and twice on Ubuntu.

Where is ~/bin being added to my path?

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