Re: Bash Path Duplications: An idea from zsh

[John P Verel]

Steven,

I'm interested.  Thanks, and send it along.

Regards,

John
On 01/07/02, 11:38:11PM -0500, Steven W. Orr wrote:
> On Thu, 3 Jan 2002, Chet Ramey wrote:
> 
> =>> There has been considerable recent discussion on the redhat-list
> =>> regarding path setting in Red Hat Linux and therefore in bash, their
> =>> default shell.  The discussion centers around the common event of
> =>> multiple instances of the same directory(s) within path entries, flowing
> =>> in part from multiple invocations of bash startup files.  A common work
> =>> around is conditional appendages to PATH, based on echo | grep tests.  
> Some
> =>> discussants find this inelegant and seek a better way to do this.
> =>
> =>This is so trivial to do with shell functions that it's not worth
> =>putting into the shell proper.  Look at examples/functions/pathfuncs
> =>in the bash distribution for guidance.
> =>
> =>The `case' statement and the [[...]] conditional command are your friends.
> =>There should be no need to resort to `echo | grep' tests.
> Chet, I almost agree with you :-)
> 
> I have a program called envv written in perl which is used to edit the 
> values of environment variables which are colon seperated lists. Very 
> handy.
> 
> Write me if you're interested. :-)
> 
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