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From: rickert@mp.cs.niu.edu (Neil Rickert)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
Subject: Re: Question about at
Message-ID: <1991Feb3.193416.29933@mp.cs.niu.edu>
Date: 3 Feb 91 19:34:16 GMT
References: <5977@rex.cs.tulane.edu>
Organization: Northern Illinois University
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In article <5977@rex.cs.tulane.edu> rawdon@rex.cs.tulane.edu (Michael Rawdon) writes:
>The problem is that my .cshrc file expands my PATH beyond the default,
>with the command:
>
>set path = ([some directory] $path [some other directory])
>
>and apparently, evey time at is invoked recursively, it executes my .cshrc
>file, which keeps making the path larger and larger, like this:

 if ( path[1] != [some directory] ) set path= ....

That way you only change the path when you need to

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