Path: utzoo!utgpu!watmath!rbutterworth
From: rbutterworth@watmath.waterloo.edu (Ray Butterworth)
Newsgroups: uw.unix
Subject: Re: searchpath
Message-ID: <28944@watmath.waterloo.edu>
Date: 6 Sep 89 21:16:30 GMT
References: <16246@watdragon.waterloo.edu>
Organization: U of Waterloo, Ontario
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In article <16246@watdragon.waterloo.edu>, dvadura@watdragon.waterloo.edu (Dennis Vadura) writes:
> Ok, how do you get /bin/searchpath to put $HOME/bin FIRST in the searchpath
> before other directories.  I want it searched first since I have replaced
> some of the brain dead standard tools with slightly fixed versions of the
> same standard tools, and want to still call them the same.  I want to use
> searchpath to set the path so I can get the benefit of having the same
> .login on the various machines.

It's a pain to do with searchpath,
and that command is more or less obsolete now.
Use showpath instead.

                setenv PATH `/bin/showpath $HOME/bin standard`

> The man page does not help, I know showpath
> exists but can't figure out if it will do the trick since I can't find a
> man page for it so I guess showpath does not exist!

You set your own MANPATH variable, and so exclude a lot of man pages.

Instead try:

                setenv MANPATH `/bin/showpath $HOME/man standard`