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Permanently Remove Item from `$PATH`

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I've dug around forums trying to find a way to get rid of some default items in my path, but to no avail. Here is what it gives right now:

/home/blaine/.rvm/gems/ruby-2.0.0-p247/bin:/home/blaine/.rvm/gems/ruby-2.0.0-p247@global/bin:/home/blaine/.rvm/rubies/ruby-2.0.0-p247/bin:/home/blaine/.rvm/bin:/home/blaine/bin:/usr/lib/lightdm/lightdm:/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/bin:/usr/games:/usr/local/games

And the offending items are the the two with games in them:

:/usr/games:/usr/local/games

neither of which I use, but that really isn't the core of my question. I want to get rid of these items (and to know how to do similarly in the future), but I can't find where these defaults are being set. There's no mention of PATH when I grep these files:

/etc/profile

/etc/profile.d/*

~/.bashrc

~/.bash_profile

I'm using Ubuntu 13.04

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answered 2 Years ago looweets · Accepted Answer

The PATH is set up in /etc/environment file, but if you want to remove some items from it, better to do this in your ~/.bashrc file. So, if you want to remove /usr/games and /usr/local/games directories, set up again the PATH like this:

PATH="/home/blaine/.rvm/gems/ruby-2.0.0-p247/bin:/home/blaine/.rvm/gems/ruby-2.0.0-p247@global/bin:/home/blaine/.rvm/rubies/ruby-2.0.0-p247/bin:/home/blaine/.rvm/bin:/home/blaine/bin:/usr/lib/lightdm/lightdm:/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/bin"