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From: Zoltan Hidvegi <hzoli@cs.elte.hu>
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Subject: Re: Metacharacters in PATH variable?
In-Reply-To: <7270.199701091904@stone.dcs.warwick.ac.uk> from Zefram at "Jan 9, 97 07:04:56 pm"
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Date: Thu, 9 Jan 1997 22:05:59 +0100 (MET)
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Zefram wrote:
> >or better yet somehow dynamically find all the bin dirs here and add it to
> >the path in some sort of compact notation like the above.
> 
> path=( $path /opt/*/bin )

Or if the bin dir is deeper, you can try

path=( $path /opt/**/bin(-/) )

Zoltan