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Re: Can $PATH look into sub-folders?

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Subject: Re: Can $PATH look into sub-folders?
Date: Mon, 30 Aug 2021 15:20:45 +0100
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On 25/08/2021 15:51, Peter Stephenson wrote:

On 25 August 2021 at 15:17 TJ Luoma <luomat@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
It is my understanding the zsh (and others) do not usually look into
sub-folders of $PATH for commands.

Secondly, use recursive globbing to add the directories to path, so at
least you don't need to do that explicitly.  In other words,

path+=(/usr/local/bin/**/*(/))

pws

I guess we can also have tilda exclusions?

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