How to extend PATH to include ~/.local/bin for WSL?

[ssbarnea]

One issue for which I am still trying to find an answer is how do I make this common pattern work in under WSL, for further run: steps.

if ! [[ "$PATH" =~ "$HOME/.local/bin" ]]; then
then
    PATH="$HOME/.local/bin:$PATH"
fi
export PATH

The example above is a common pattern for adding the user bin directory to user PATH, and often that bit is appended to .bashrc so further scripts executed would make use of it.

The problem is that wsl bash session is not loading the .bashrc file, so I am unable to make the PATH change persistent.

[briantist]

Hey @ssbarnea , I was researching this and expected it to be something where you would modify the custom shell command via this action, so that you could change the invocation to add -i or something, but it looks like there's a much better way it could be done directly in the workflow via WSLENV, as described here:
#9 (comment)

[ssbarnea]

PATH is not something you can really set (or want) using the workflow itself, especially when using a test matrix that spawns across windows, macos and linux.

Based on my tests with WSL1 on GHA, the .bashrc file was not loaded.

[Vampire]

I agree to both of what Brian said.

Either you change the wsl-shell-command input to something that will evaluate the .bashrc file.
Adding -i should not be sufficient as the default has --norc.
Leaving out --norc should probably be enough, or if not then maybe additionally -i.

Or as Brian said, using the environment variable support.