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I am little confused about an instruction I came across. It stated "put the file in your path". I interpreted that as to add

PATH=$PATH:'~/.conkystart'

to my ~/.bashrc. The file is ~/.conkystart 

#!/bin/bash
conky -c ~/.conkyrc2

and ~/.conkyrc2 is a second conky fig file.

However, when I restarted, the second conkyrc file didn't execute and there were no errors in the bash terminal. Am I interpreting "put the file in your path" incorrectly? If so, what should I have done instead?

The end game is for ~/.conkyrc2 to execute on boot.

dustin
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  • Your interpretation is incorrect, since PATH is a list of directories. You should copy/move/link it to a directory that is present in PATH, or add the directory containing it to PATH. That said, I don't see why adding it to PATH should cause it execute automatically. What is it you're trying to do and what instructions are you following? – muru Apr 08 '15 at 03:11
  • @muru I want ~/.conkyrc2 to execute on boot. – dustin Apr 08 '15 at 03:12
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    Just add it to Startup Applications – Organic Marble Apr 08 '15 at 03:12
  • @OrganicMarble I actually dont use Ubuntu. I was just asking this here as a general linux question. – dustin Apr 08 '15 at 03:14
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    You do not want to run that at boot as X is not running yet and you will get an error message. You want it to run when you log in. It is more likely you want to start conky at login as I am going to guess conkyrc2 is not a script (although it could be). – Panther Apr 08 '15 at 03:31
  • As @bodhi.zazen says, do it at login. In Ubuntu the straightforward way is to just put conky in Startup Applications with a short delay to ensure the desktop has started. But if you are not an Ubuntu user.... – Organic Marble Apr 08 '15 at 03:40

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To add a file to your PATH, first find out what PATH is with:

echo $PATH

Then, move the file to one of those directories.

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