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Date: Mon, 4 Jul 2016 11:28:54 +0200
From: Roman Neuhauser <neuhauser@sigpipe.cz>
To: Johan DS <victor3xray@gmail.com>
Cc: TJ Luoma <luomat@gmail.com>, Zsh-Users List <zsh-users@zsh.org>
Subject: Re: Sub-folders in $PATH?
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# victor3xray@gmail.com / 2016-07-03 01:26:06 +0200:
> export
> PATH=$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