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