Updating path in Vagrant using shell provisioning

The problem was resolved with the following added to the provision.sh file based on this post:

echo PATH $PATH[ -f ~/.profile ] || touch ~/.profile[ -f ~/.bash_profile ] || touch ~/.bash_profilegrep 'PATH=/usr/local/x86_64/bin' ~/.profile || echo 'export PATH=/usr/local/x86_64/bin:$PATH' | tee -a ~/.profilegrep 'PATH=/usr/local/x86_64/bin' ~/.bash_profile || echo 'export PATH=/usr/local/x86_64/bin:$PATH' | tee -a ~/.bash_profile. ~/.profile. ~/.bash_profileecho PATH $PATH

This works for the precise 64 box all the commands should be one line.

Example using Ex/vi editor:

ex +'$s@$@\rexport PATH=/var/lib/vendor/bin:$PATH@' -cwq /etc/bash.bashrc

which appends:

export PATH=/var/lib/vendor/bin:$PATH

into global /etc/bash.bashrc file (so it's available for all users using bash shell, or use /etc/profile to use for all Bourne shells).

Alternatively use simply cat, e.g.:

cat >> ~/.bashrc <<EOFexport PATH=~/.composer/vendor/bin:\$PATHEOF

If you need to have access to newly tool straight away, then you need to source the file.

If you're using composer, you may consider installing the binaries by specifying the requirements in composer.json, see some examples here, so in this case, you don't have to worry about configuring PATH variable.

If you're using Ansible playbooks, you can try using Files Modules with the following rule in yml file:

- name: Update bashrc to add new PATH entry:    dest=/home/vagrant/.bashrc    line="export PATH='/usr/local/x86_64/bin:$PATH'"    regexp="^export PATH"    owner=vagrant    state=present    insertafter=EOF    create=True