Metacharacters in PATH variable?

Metacharacters in PATH variable?

[Clint Olsen]

Hello:

Sorry if this is a FAQ, but I was wondering if ZSH supports wildcard
characters in the PATH variable.  HP-UX uses this new /opt/package/*
braindead methodology for option packages and thus the binaries and manuals
are all scattered under each of the subdirectories.  It would be nice if
you could do something like this:

PATH=${PATH}:/opt/{ansic,langtools,audio}/bin

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.

Thanks,

-Clint

Re: Metacharacters in PATH variable?

[Zefram]

Clint Olsen wrote:
>PATH=${PATH}:/opt/{ansic,langtools,audio}/bin

path=( $path /opt/{ansic,langtools,audio}/bin )

>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 )

-zefram

Re: Metacharacters in PATH variable?

[Zoltan Hidvegi]

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