Re: Bash: testing a variable
On Fri, Jul 09, 2021 at 01:54:19PM -0600, Charles Curley wrote:
> I'd like to check two things:
>
> * Whether a given path is not already in the $PATH variable
>
> * Whether the given path already exists
>
> If both are true, I'd like to add the given path to the $PATH variable.
add_path_maybe() {
local p i
if [[ $1 != /* ]]; then
echo "refusing to consider a directory that doesn't begin with /" >&2
return 1
fi
if [[ ! -d $1 ]]; then
echo "directory '$1' does not exist" >&2
return 1
fi
IFS=: read -ra p <<< "$PATH"
for i in "${p[@]}"; do
if [[ $i = "$1" ]]; then
return 0
fi
done
PATH=$PATH:$1
}
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