From: Dan Nelson <dnelson@allantgroup.com>
To: Wayne Davison <wayned@users.sourceforge.net>,
Bart Schaefer <schaefer@brasslantern.com>,
zsh-users@sunsite.dk
Subject: Re: ~/.zshenv or ~/.zprofile
Date: Mon, 8 Sep 2003 10:57:01 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20030908155701.GJ48339@dan.emsphone.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20030908094540.GB51@DervishD>
In the last episode (Sep 08), DervishD said:
> * Dan Nelson <dnelson@allantgroup.com> dixit:
> > My global path settings are in zshenv, because that's the only one
> > read from scripts when your original login shell wasn't zsh and
> > from cron jobs.
>
> Well, that was my doubt ;))
>
> > path=(/usr/local/bin
> > typeset -U PATH
>
> Good solution! Just one more question: if the user runs, as in the
> example, 'PATH=whatever gdb program', this is because the user wants
> JUST that path, no more, no less. Shouldn't be a better approach
> something like:
>
> [[ -z "$path" ]] && path=(mypath $path)
> typeset -U path
That won't work because cron and /usr/bin/login give you a minimal
PATH. You could have it test another variable like "NODEFAULTPATH" or
something.
--
Dan Nelson
dnelson@allantgroup.com
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2003-09-08 15:57 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 19+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2003-08-03 22:18 Nikolai Weibull
2003-08-03 22:39 ` Wayne Davison
2003-08-04 6:00 ` Bart Schaefer
2003-09-07 17:57 ` Wayne Davison
2003-09-07 21:24 ` DervishD
2003-09-08 3:27 ` Dan Nelson
2003-09-08 9:45 ` DervishD
2003-09-08 15:57 ` Dan Nelson [this message]
2003-09-08 22:01 ` DervishD
2003-09-08 9:47 ` Phil Pennock
2003-09-08 10:59 ` DervishD
2003-09-08 17:55 ` Wayne Davison
2003-09-08 22:48 ` Phil Pennock
2003-09-10 20:00 ` Wayne Davison
2003-09-10 19:57 ` Wayne Davison
2003-09-11 6:50 ` Oliver Kiddle
2003-08-04 2:57 ` Dan Nelson
2003-08-04 10:45 ` Nikolai Weibull
2003-08-04 9:15 ` Zefram
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