A simple helper program to adapt the PATH environment variable.
- Prepends its arguments to PATH
- Removes duplicates
- Removes non-existing directories from PATH
- Converts elements to absolute path
- Dereferences symbolic links (may be suppressed with
-keepsymlinks)
Called without arguments it will clean the PATH (remove duplicates, remove non-existing directories etc).
Will not actually modify the PATH environment variable, but write the modified PATH variable to stdout.
Tested under OpenBSD 7.2, Linux (Ubuntu 22.04) and Windows 10. \
Windows CMD:
chpath %HOMEPATH%\bin %HOMEPATH%\other\bin > %TEMP%\set_my_path.cmd
call %TEMP%\set_my_path.cmd
ksh or bash:
export PATH=$(chpath ~/bin ~/other/bin)
go install github.com/rialpamu/chpath@latest