From: Sami Samhuri <sami@no-eff-eks.com>
To: zsh-users@sunsite.dk
Subject: Re: How to clean up path most efficiently?
Date: Wed, 23 Jun 2004 09:55:20 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20040623165520.GG13612@no-eff-eks.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200406230856.i5N8ucoF002908@news01.csr.com>
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* It was Wed, Jun 23, 2004 at 09:56:38AM +0100 when Peter Stephenson said:
> Timothy Luoma wrote:
> > > It should be as simple as:
> > >
> > > path=($^path(N))
> >
> > Does that go through the current $PATH and delete all the folders that
> > aren't listed in there?
>
> I should probably have explained in more detail at the time.
>
> The ^ indicates that anything outside the array should be expanded with
> each element, so the expression becomes something like:
>
> path=(/usr/local/bin(N) //usr/nonexistent/bin(N) /usr/bin(N) /bin(N))
>
> The presence of the glob qualifier (N) turns on globbing even though
> there are no patterns present (historically, it didn't always do that).
> The shell then goes through it turning any name which doesn't exist in the
> filesystem into a null string, and passing the rest through, so it
> becomes something like:
>
> path=(/usr/local/bin /usr/bin bin)
>
> which then gets assigned back to path. This automatically appears in
> PATH as
>
> PATH=/usr/local/bin:/usr/bin:/bin
This is great. Thanks for the explanation! For zsh newbies some of the
syntax seems cryptic at first.
--
Sami Samhuri
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2004-06-23 16:54 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2004-06-17 16:11 Jarkko Maja
2004-06-17 16:34 ` Peter Stephenson
2004-06-17 17:21 ` Paul Lew
2004-06-22 19:46 ` Timothy Luoma
2004-06-23 2:23 ` Sami Samhuri
2004-06-23 7:09 ` Bart Schaefer
2004-06-23 8:56 ` Peter Stephenson
2004-06-23 16:55 ` Sami Samhuri [this message]
2004-06-17 16:50 ` Paul Lew
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