My quick GPL'd script to adjust some PATH environment variables

created by mirko
(idea) by mirko (2.4 d) (print)   (I like it!) Wed Jan 24 2001 at 11:07:04
  1. Save the following shell script as mkpath.pl :
    #!/bin/sh

find / -type d 2>/dev/null | grep -vi packages | grep -vi patches | grep -v "/tmp/" | sort | uniq | awk -F/ '
        BEGIN   {
                        path = "";
                        ldpath = "";
                        libpath = "";
                        manpath = "";
                }
                {
                        if (( $NF == "bin" ) || ( $NF == "sbin" )) {
                                path = path ":" $0;
                        } else if ( $NF == "lib" ) {
                                ldpath = ldpath ":" $0;
                                libpath = libpath ":" $0;
                        } else if ( $NF == "man" ) {
                                manpath = manpath ":" $0;
                        }
                }
        END     {
                        print "export PATH=$PATH"path;
                        print "export LD_LIBRARY_PATH=$LD_LIBRARY_PATH"ldpath;
                        print "export LIBPATH=$LIBPATH"libpath;
                        print "export MANPATH=$MANPATH"manpath;
                }'
  2. Don't forget to chmod it to -rwxr-xr-x
  3. Redirect it to your .bashrc like this : ./mkpath.pl >> ~/.bashrc
  4. Edit it to fit your needs.
  5. Logout, then Logon again and enjoy.
NB: Don't use it on a Solaris machine as this would generate a really long damn' PATH which would be too long to clean up that you'd have lost more time that saved with this script.
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