Re: multiple OSes

[Atom Smasher <atom@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

does this list allow attachments? i guess i'll find out...

lots of good ideas on how to set a path. i think i've come up with 
something thorough that combines a lot of the ideas presented so far, and 
adds some new ones...

it starts with a list from `getconf PATH` and ${path}, then adds some 
common paths (i'm sure it's an incomplete list). those are all fed to an 
array that disregards duplicate values. from there it runs through a loop 
to check if each directory exists (and if it's a directory), if it's owned 
by either root or the current user, and that the permissions of the 
directory are sane (you just don't want to run things from a directory 
that anyone can write to!). if it passes all of these tests it's added to 
the path.

btw, if anyone can give me a shell account on a solaris box, contact me 
off list. thanks...


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	 life must necessarily decay."
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#!/bin/zsh

typeset -U common_paths
common_paths=(
    ${=$(command -p getconf PATH)//:/ } ${path}
    /bin /sbin /usr/bin /usr/sbin
    /usr/local/bin /usr/local/sbin
    /usr/X11R6/bin
    /usr/pkg/bin /usr/pkg/sbin
    /usr/ccs/bin /usr/xpg4/bin /opt/local/bin /opt/local/sbin /opt/SUNWspro/bin /usr/ucb
    /usr/games
    ${HOME}/bin
)
unsetopt NOMATCH
unset PATH_test
for temp_path in ${common_paths}
do
  test -d "${temp_path}"(f?55u0,f?55u${UID}) && PATH_test="${PATH_test}${temp_path}:"
done
setopt NOMATCH
print ${PATH_test}
unset common_paths temp_path