modify path globally Is there a standard for `$PATH` and the order of things that are supposed to be in there? out of the box Arch Linux doesn't have `/usr/local/bin` in the `$PATH`. I want to add it but I'm not sure if there's a predefined pecking order for system paths. Also where is the right place to do this? for right now I modified `/etc/profile` but I'm not sure that's the right place in Arch for user modifications. Anyone know if there's a better place?

Arch is a minimalistic linux distribution, so normally there are no other special configuration files which are getting included in some strange placces, modified by system configuration wizards.

`/etc/profile` is the right place to do this for a system wide configuration.

> This file is intended to be used for ALL common Bourne-compatible shells. Shell specifics should be handled in /etc/profile.$SHELL where $SHELL is the name of the binary being run (discounting symlinks)

It is also mentioned in the official FAQ for reloading if your shell can't find a newly installed binary