pad-path-0.1.8 is not a library.
pad
Intuitively modify your $PATH
.
Installation
Cargo
cargo install pad-path
Build from source
git clone https://github.com/jrhawley/pad-path
cd pad-path
cargo build --release
Usage
Intuitively modify your `$PATH`
USAGE:
pad [SUBCOMMAND]
FLAGS:
-h, --help Prints help information
-V, --version Prints version information
SUBCOMMANDS:
add Add a directory
clean Remove duplicates and non-existent directories [aliases: dedup]
dn Decrease priority for a directory [aliases: down, dec]
help Prints this message or the help of the given subcommand(s)
ls List the directories in PATH [aliases: echo]
rm Remove a directory [aliases: del]
up Increase priority for a directory [aliases: inc]
It would be convenient, but insecure, to have pad-path
modify the shell's environment variables directly.
Instead, pad-path
prints out what the new $PATH
will look like, and the user can set it as the value for $PATH
, or pipe it to another command.
In Bash, an example workflow is below.
# display your current $PATH
> pad ls
/folder/to/remove
/usr/local/sbin
/usr/local/bin
/usr/sbin
/usr/bin
/sbin
/bin
/usr/games
/usr/local/games
/snap/bin
# preview what $PATH would look like if you remove the first folder
> pad rm /folder/to/remove
/usr/local/sbin
/usr/local/bin
/usr/sbin
/usr/bin
/sbin
/bin
/usr/games
/usr/local/games
/snap/bin
# set the new $PATH
> export PATH=$(pad rm /folder/to/remove)
# see that the new path is set
> echo $PATH
/usr/local/sbin
/usr/local/bin
/usr/sbin
/usr/bin
/sbin
/bin
/usr/games
/usr/local/games
/snap/bin
Similarly, in PowerShell, you can assign the output of a pad-path
command to $Env:Path
.
# check the value of $Env:Path
> pad ls
C:\WINDOWS\system32
C:\WINDOWS
C:\WINDOWS\System32\Wbem
C:\WINDOWS\System32\WindowsPowerShell\v1.0
C:\WINDOWS\System32\OpenSSH
C:\Program Files\dotnet
# add a new variable to $Env:Path
> $Env:Path = (pad add "C:\Program Files\new_dir")
# check that the folder has been added correctly
> pad ls
C:\WINDOWS\system32
C:\WINDOWS
C:\WINDOWS\System32\Wbem
C:\WINDOWS\System32\WindowsPowerShell\v1.0
C:\WINDOWS\System32\OpenSSH
C:\Program Files\dotnet
C:\Program Files\new_dir