til/zsh/add-to-the-path-via-path-array.md

Add To Path Via Path Array

Typically when managing what is on your path in a Unix shell environment, you override the PATH environment variable with export. This is usually an append or prepend to bring along the existing path entries.

$ export PATH="$PATH:/Users/me/.local/bin"

The zsh shell environment exposes another way of adding to your path. They have a path array which can be a little easier to work with since you can use an array operation instead of string interpolation.

Here is how we'd do the same as above:

$ path+=/Users/me/.local/bin

This works because there is an automatic linking in zsh between arrays and colon-separated strings (scalars). source

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