How to append to the PATH

[Jonty Needham]

I need to update the PATH variable on the target machine. Yet I have no idea how to do it.

I could update /etc/environment with an ansible play, but does that do what I want without overwriting the user's PATH instead of appending to it?

What's the best way of doing this?

[Kai Stian Olstad]

It depends on your shell, interactive or non interactive shell, your
distribution and for which user you would like to change the path for.

Interactive Bash support files in /etc/profile.d/ and this will be added
to all users.

To add to the path just create a file like this.

- name: My custom path
copy:
dest: /etc/profile.d/my_custom_path.sh
content: "PATH=PATH:/my/custom/path"

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Kai Stian Olstad