_ebPathMan

DESCRIPTION

Toolset to simplify either permanent or dynamic changes to Windows and Unix-variants PATH. Can get any viable path (for example one that has scripts or binaries you want to use) into the PATH of your terminal/cmd/what-have-you.

DEPENDENCIES

• For Windows, a Unix-like environment as provided by Cygwin or MSYS2 (MSYS2 is preferred), to make use of the bash (.sh) scripts. Or, if you prefer (I probably don't), the .bat scripts.
• For any Unixy environment, nothing other than that environment, that I'm aware, other than some of these scripts expecting the existence of a ~/.bash_profile file in your user root dir, which could be an erred assumption (I understand that a variety of profile definition files exist for Unixes).

INSTALLATION AND USAGE

Clone this repo:

git clone https://github.com/earthbound19/_ebPathMan

Open a terminal to the path you have cloned it into, and examine the comments in any of the following scripts to see how to use them.

Dynamic PATH modification

Unixes etc.

• getDevEnv.sh
• getAllDevEnvs.sh (uses the former in a loop)

Windows

• _getDevEnv.bat

Permanent PATH modification

Unixes etc.

• addThisPathToProfile.sh.

Windows

• _addToSystemPATH.bat
• modpath.exe is great for adding to the system PATH environment variable. I found it in the uninstall folder of ImageMagick for Windows, but I don't know where it is from originally (if not from ImageMagick). The _addToSystemPATH.bat script uses modpath.exe.
• PathEditor.exe is a handy-dandy application with a graphical user interface that makes editing environment variables easy. I didn't create this tool.
• setenv.exe is great for creating new system (or any context) environment variables with their values. I think I got it from here.