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Hadron Quark wrote:
> I have specifically customised shell in emacs so that the shell file is
> /bin/bash
>
> But why is it not picking up the path alteration in my .bashrc?
>
> Also "set" just gives
>
> ~ $ set
> usage: set: (SYMBOL NEWVAL)
> ~ $
>
> Clearly something wrong and hopefully easy that I have missed.

You are using eshell, not shell.  Somewhere in .emacs you have set
eshell-prefer-to-shell to t.