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Re: PATH question



On 2007-03-19 16:06:05 +0100, Matus UHLAR - fantomas wrote:
> > On 2007-03-15 16:06:40 +0100, Matus UHLAR - fantomas wrote:
> > > $PATH is "universal" environment variable. (t)csh maps path to PATH, but
> > > only PATH exists in (ba|z|k|)sh
> 
> On 19.03.07 15:07, Vincent Lefevre wrote:
> > $path exists in zsh and is an array tied to $PATH.
> 
> ok, so it's the same as in (t)csh. However, it's still non-standard
> extension

Yes.

> and libc functions like execlp() do not support it.

execlp() supports it as a side effect, since when $path is modified,
zsh updates $PATH in the same way.

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