Adding any current directory './' to the search path in Linux [closed]

Answer 1

If you want to permanently add the directory you're currently in to the PATH variable you can use

$ echo "export PATH=\$PATH:$(pwd)" >> ~/.bashrc

which will expand $(pwd) to the string literal of your current directory and append the quoted line to your bashrc. Note the \ in \$PATH is needed to escape the expansion of $PATH to its current value.

$ pwd
/path/to/suuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuper/long/foo/directory/bin

$ echo "export PATH=\$PATH:$(pwd)" >> ~/.bashrc

$ tail ~/.bashrc -n 1
export PATH=$PATH:/path/to/suuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuper/long/foo/directory/bin