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Very often it will be necessary to add new directories into PATH.
The command for setting or changing the environment variable is setenv.
To add, for example, user's cs241/a1 directory to the PATH, type:
setenv PATH $HOME/cs241/a1:$PATH
This will add cs241/a1 directory to the beginning, which means that
the cs241/a1 directory will be searched by shell first.
Similarly one can add a directory to the end of the list.
Note, that HOME is another environment variable, which defines user's home directory.
Instructional Support Group
2008-08-05