OS X Path Management

readme.txt

Paths For Mac OS X

Not long ago I found the existence of paths.d in OS X.
Essentially, $PATH is generated by appending the contents of each of the files in
/etc/paths.d/ to $PATH.

I decided that this could be incredibly useful for development, so I wrote a little
tool that will add, remove and list paths in this directory, so you don't have to
add them manually.

paths list
Lists the path names as well as the associated paths

paths remove <path name>
removes the named path

paths add <path name> <path>
adds a named path to the listed path


Just rename paths.sh to paths, chmod +x paths then copy it to /usr/bin
The script does not rely at all on its name, so if you wish to rename it,
please feel free

- Josh

P.S. I know the script isn't terribly efficient, but does it really REALLY
need to execute faster than it does already?

P.P.S. If you use my scripts often, fund my coffee. (Bitcoin: 1NMkzf4ZwtwAXW9pW5MwABn71vg5acD9q3)

====== MIT License ======

Copyright (C) 2014 Josh Pruim

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paths.sh

#!/bin/sh
#paths
#For Mac OS X
#MIT Licensed
#2014 Josh Pruim
#
#This adds an entry to /etc/paths.d
#Accepts 1/2/3 parameters
#paths add <path name> <path>
#paths remove <path name>
#paths list
#paths add node /usr/bin/node 
#the above would add a file called node in /etc/paths.d with
#a pointer to /usr/bin/node/
if [ "$1" = "list" ]; then
	if [ "`ls -l /etc/paths.d | grep -v ^l | wc -l`" -gt "0" ]; then
		for filename in /etc/paths.d/*; do
			if [ "$filename" != "/etc.paths.d/*" ]; then
				echo "`echo $filename | sed "s@/etc/paths.d/@@"` - `cat $filename`"
			fi
		done
	fi
fi
if [ "$1" = "add" ]; then
	if [ "$#" -ne 3 ]; then
	    echo "Illegal number of parameters"
	    exit 1
	fi
	sudo sh -c "echo \"$3\" > /etc/paths.d/$2"
fi
if [ "$1" = "remove" ]; then
	if [ "$#" -ne 2 ]; then
	    echo "Illegal number of parameters"
	    exit 2
	fi
	sudo sh -c "rm /etc/paths.d/$2"
fi