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# Add To Path Via Path Array
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Typically when managing what is on your path in a Unix shell environment, you
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override the `PATH` environment variable with `export`. This is usually an
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append or prepend to bring along the existing path entries.
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```bash
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$ export PATH="$PATH:/Users/me/.local/bin"
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```
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The `zsh` shell environment exposes another way of adding to your path. They
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have a `path` array which can be a little easier to work with since you can use
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an array operation instead of string interpolation.
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Here is how we'd do the same as above:
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```bash
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$ path+=/Users/me/.local/bin
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```
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This works because there is an automatic linking in zsh between arrays and
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colon-separated strings (_scalars_).
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[source](https://www.zsh.org/mla/users//2005/msg01132.html)
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[source](https://superuser.com/a/1447959)
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