How to set $PATH persistently for all users?

[kuvaldini]

This thread #527 has exhaustive description and concrete recommendation to use $fish_user_paths.

But how can I set PATH for ALL users, not the only one?

[zanchey]

You can change $PATH in /etc/fish/config.fish which is applied by all users.

On macOS, you can also use /etc/paths or /etc/paths.d/.

[kuvaldini]

Are there plans to read paths from /etc/paths and /etc/paths.d in Linux?

[zanchey]

I don't know of any Linux distributions which use that mechanism. If they did we'd certainly look at adding it. /etc/login.defs is probably the tool of choice on Debian, but fish doesn't need to read that - it's handled at another layer.

[kuvaldini]

You can change $PATH in /etc/fish/config.fish which is applied by all users.

Thank you. This works fine.

[thernstig]

@kuvaldini You can read about this in the docs: https://fishshell.com/docs/current/index.html#initialization-files