Thanks for the quick reply. I added the line to my .bashrc file then from the command did source ~/.bashrc I will try with quotes when i get home. On Tue, Feb 18, 2020, 9:08 AM Vladimir Lomov, wrote:

Hello, ** Yves Cloutier [2020-02-18 08:49:37 -0500]:

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Hello,

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I'm on linux and trying to add my fonts directories using

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export OSFONTDIR=/usr/share/fonts/;$HOME/.fonts

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however when I do, I get the following message:

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bash: /home/drifter/.fonts: Is a directory

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I'm not what I'm doing wrong or why it's not liking this. Any pointers would be appreciated.

Use double quotes: export OSFONTDIR="/usr/share/fonts/;$HOME/.fonts"

P.S. You may be interested to read bash scripting guide, but in short the semicolon is used in shell (bash, zsh) to separate two or more commands in a row, so your line was interpreted by a shell (I assume that it is bash) like 1 command: export OSFONTDIR=/usr/share/fonts 2 command: $HOME/.fonts so indeed the $HOME/.fonts is a directory.

--- WBR, Vladimir Lomov

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