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Re: How to clean up path most efficiently?

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From: Bart Schaefer <schaefer@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
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Subject: Re: How to clean up path most efficiently?
Date: Wed, 23 Jun 2004 00:09:46 -0700 (PDT)
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On Tue, 22 Jun 2004, Timothy Luoma wrote:

> > path=($^path(N))
> 
> Does that go through the current $PATH and delete all the folders that
> aren't listed in there?

Yes.

> Is it supposed to be lowercase?

Yes, Sami Samhuri has the right of it:  $path and $PATH are "tied"  
variables, one an array and one a colon-delimited string, both of which
represent the same value.  Assign to either one and zsh changes the other
to match.

References:
- Re: How to clean up path most efficiently?
  - From: Timothy Luoma

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