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, <lomov.vl@yandex.ru> wrote:

> Hello,
> ** Yves Cloutier <yves.cloutier@gmail.com> [2020-02-18 08:49:37 -0500]:
>
> > Hello,
>
> > I'm on linux and trying to add my fonts directories using
>
> > export OSFONTDIR=/usr/share/fonts/;$HOME/.fonts
>
> > however when I do, I get the following message:
>
> > bash: /home/drifter/.fonts: Is a directory
>
> > I'm not what I'm doing wrong or why it's not liking this. Any pointers
> > would be appreciated.
>
> Use double quotes:
> export OSFONTDIR="/usr/share/fonts/;$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.
>
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> WBR, Vladimir Lomov
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