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  • but I got this, why? " `/home/paul/bin': not a valid identifier " Commented Mar 8, 2012 at 7:26
  • @AndersLind: get rid of the whitespace. It should be export PATH=foo:bar:baz, not export PATH = foo:bar:baz. Shells are sensitive to this sort of thing. Commented Mar 8, 2012 at 11:17