From: Zoltan Hidvegi <hzoli@frontiernet.net>
To: stucki@math.fu-berlin.de
Cc: zsh-workers@math.gatech.edu
Subject: Re: Feature / Idea / (a possible option)
Date: Wed, 8 Jul 1998 14:14:13 -0500 (CDT) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <199807081914.OAA11122@frontiernet.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.GSO.3.95q.980708200939.6079L-100000@petzval> from "C. v. Stuckrad" at "Jul 8, 98 08:19:28 pm"
> We use a little Program called 'dotpath', to cleanup PATHes like
> export PATH=$(dotpath)
> where 'dotpath' prints the Path cleaned up from duplicate entries
> puts the '.' directory at the end (in case of 'root' accounts
> or 'wheel' group it even eliminates the '.').
How about typeset -U path PATH? That makes the path unique. Every
assignment after that will keep the path unique, so PATH=$PATH:$PATH
will leave the path unchanged. To move the dot to the end, do
path=( "${path[@]:#.}" . )
To remove the dot, you can do:
path[(r).]=()
Zoli
prev parent reply other threads:[~1998-07-08 19:38 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 2+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
1998-07-08 18:19 C. v. Stuckrad
1998-07-08 19:14 ` Zoltan Hidvegi [this message]
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