Sub-folders in $PATH?

Sub-folders in $PATH?

[TJ Luoma]

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Is there an option to have subfolders in a $PATH folder searched as well?

For example, if I wanted to put some folders in /usr/local/bin/scripts/
without explicitly adding /usr/local/bin/scripts/ to $PATH
(assuming  /usr/local/bin/ was already in there).

TJ

Re: Sub-folders in $PATH?

[Johan DS]

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Hi
I have this in my .zshenv

export
PATH=$PATH:/usr/local/bin:/usr/bin:/bin:/usr/local/sbin:/usr/sbin:/sbin:
[[ -d ~/bin ]] && export PATH=${PATH}:$(find ~/bin -type d | tr '\n' ':' |
sed 's/:$//') #include all ~/bin/subdirs

On Sun, Jul 3, 2016 at 12:15 AM, TJ Luoma <luomat@gmail.com> wrote:

> Is there an option to have subfolders in a $PATH folder searched as well?
>
> For example, if I wanted to put some folders in /usr/local/bin/scripts/
> without explicitly adding /usr/local/bin/scripts/ to $PATH
> (assuming  /usr/local/bin/ was already in there).
>
> TJ
>

Re: Sub-folders in $PATH?

[Roman Neuhauser]

# victor3xray@gmail.com / 2016-07-03 01:26:06 +0200:
> export
> PATH=$PATH:/usr/local/bin:/usr/bin:/bin:/usr/local/sbin:/usr/sbin:/sbin:
> [[ -d ~/bin ]] && export PATH=${PATH}:$(find ~/bin -type d | tr '\n' ':' |
> sed 's/:$//') #include all ~/bin/subdirs

you could replace both exports with

path+=(
  {/usr/local,/usr,}/bin
  {/usr/local,/usr,}/sbin
  ~/bin/*(/N)
)

-- 
roman

Re: Sub-folders in $PATH?

[Nikolay Aleksandrovich Pavlov (ZyX)]

03.07.2016, 01:16, "TJ Luoma" <luomat@gmail.com>:
> Is there an option to have subfolders in a $PATH folder searched as well?
>
> For example, if I wanted to put some folders in /usr/local/bin/scripts/
> without explicitly adding /usr/local/bin/scripts/ to $PATH
> (assuming /usr/local/bin/ was already in there).
>
> TJ

If script names are unique you may employ command_not_found_handler function to do this job. Note though that this will work like you have all subfolders after all folders in $PATH, if e.g. there are executables `/usr/bin/scripts/foo` and `/usr/local/bin/foo` and `PATH=/usr/bin:/usr/local/bin` then implementing this functionality via command_not_found_handler will find `/usr/local/bin/foo` before considering `/usr/bin/scripts/foo`.

Re: Sub-folders in $PATH?

[Daniel Shahaf]

Johan DS wrote on Sun, Jul 03, 2016 at 01:26:06 +0200:
> On Sun, Jul 3, 2016 at 12:15 AM, TJ Luoma <luomat@gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> > Is there an option to have subfolders in a $PATH folder searched as well?

Consider: setopt PATH_DIRS

> > For example, if I wanted to put some folders in /usr/local/bin/scripts/
> > without explicitly adding /usr/local/bin/scripts/ to $PATH
> > (assuming  /usr/local/bin/ was already in there).
> >
> > TJ
> 
> Hi
> I have this in my .zshenv
> 
> export
> PATH=$PATH:/usr/local/bin:/usr/bin:/bin:/usr/local/sbin:/usr/sbin:/sbin:
> [[ -d ~/bin ]] && export PATH=${PATH}:$(find ~/bin -type d | tr '\n' ':' |
> sed 's/:$//') #include all ~/bin/subdirs

Another way of doing the same thing:

    path+=(
      /usr/local/bin /usr/bin /bin /usr/local/sbin /usr/sbin /sbin 
      ~/bin/**/*(/N)
    )

(unlike Roman's solution this uses ** to be equivalent to the find(1))

Re: Sub-folders in $PATH?

[Roman Neuhauser]

# d.s@daniel.shahaf.name / 2016-07-05 04:57:53 +0000:
> Johan DS wrote on Sun, Jul 03, 2016 at 01:26:06 +0200:
> > export
> > PATH=$PATH:/usr/local/bin:/usr/bin:/bin:/usr/local/sbin:/usr/sbin:/sbin:
> > [[ -d ~/bin ]] && export PATH=${PATH}:$(find ~/bin -type d | tr '\n' ':' |
> > sed 's/:$//') #include all ~/bin/subdirs
> 
> Another way of doing the same thing:
> 
>     path+=(
>       /usr/local/bin /usr/bin /bin /usr/local/sbin /usr/sbin /sbin 
>       ~/bin/**/*(/N)
>     )
> 
> (unlike Roman's solution this uses ** to be equivalent to the find(1))

yeah, sorry about that, i *meant* to use recursive glob.

-- 
roman