From: Eric Bambach <eric@cisu.net>
To: DogWalker <forestiero@qwest.net>
Cc: linux-newbie@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Adding to the PATH but not if already in $PATH
Date: Sat, 26 Feb 2005 14:34:46 -0600 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <200502261434.46500.eric@cisu.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20050226192604.1405.90540@linux.local>
On Saturday 26 February 2005 01:40 pm, you wrote:
> "Eric Bambach" <eric@cisu.net> said:
> >On Saturday 26 February 2005 12:17 pm, you wrote:
> >> I want to prepend a directory to my PATH in my $HOME/.bashrc and export
> >> the result. But I only want it to happen once: iow, if a directory I
> >> want prepended is already in the PATH, do not prepend it again.
>
> [...]
>
> >sed and grep can help.
> >
> >echo $PATH | grep 'SOMEPATH'
> >if [ $? == 0 ];then
> > export PATH
> >else
> > PATH=NEWPATH
> >fi
> >
> >Check the login on that though, shouldnt be too hard.
errr....check the *logic* on that. The syntax is mostly good but treat it as
pseudocode. I wrote that after I just woke up ;) But I think you got the
picture.
> Great!
>
> Sorry about the double post: kmail did what I said not what
> I meant.
--
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--EB
> All is fine except that I can reliably "oops" it simply by trying to read
> from /proc/apm (e.g. cat /proc/apm).
> oops output and ksymoops-2.3.4 output is attached.
> Is there anything else I can contribute?
The latitude and longtitude of the bios writers current position, and
a ballistic missile.
--Alan Cox LKML-December 08,2000
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2005-02-26 20:34 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2005-02-26 18:17 Adding to the PATH but not if already in $PATH Dog Walker
2005-02-26 19:05 ` Eric Bambach
2005-02-26 19:40 ` DogWalker
2005-02-26 20:34 ` Eric Bambach [this message]
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2005-02-26 18:16 Dog Walker
2005-02-26 22:44 ` chuck gelm
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