Re: Wildcard expansion in $PATH

[Chet Ramey]

> It would be nice if one day BASH could recognize wildcards in the PATH 
> statement.  E.g.,
> 
> export PATH=/sbin:/usr/sbin:/usr/pkg/*/bin

export PATH=/sbin:/usr/sbin$(printf ":%s" /usr/pkg/*/bin)

That does require that you periodically re-execute this command, and it
might not be as dynamic as you desire.  On the other hand, it works today.

Chet

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