WSL ignores environment path

[ezxpro]

Long story short, I installed anaconda and added it to path using putting export PATH=$PATH:/path/to/anaconda in .bashrc, didn't work. on ZSH, I added it to .zshrc, didn't work either. These always work on a live distro, but not inside wsl. I then tried adding it to /etc/profile, didn't work either.

Then someone told me about this ask ubuntu issue, which basically says you should add paths to /etc/environment.

I did it and it worked, until I restarted WSL and it no longer worked.

I have none of this issues when running a full linux distro on my pc, not sure what's happening, it's looks like a WSL issue.

[tusharsnx]

Can you share your $PATH so that we can have a look. May be some other program is modifying the values.

I am assuming none of the windows path is getting added if its disabled.

[OneBlue]

Thanks for reporting this @ezxpro. WSL doesn't edit the $PATH after the shell is started, so changing the interop settings shouldn't affect this.

This is probably a configuration issue. I'd recommend validating that the changes you made to .zshrc / .bashrc are correctly applied by running echo $PATH (also FYI you need to restart your shell to apply your changes in those files).

More info here

Closing since this isn't a WSL issue.