removing environment variables

Nevetsmik103081 · 06-22-2003, 08:52 PM

Is there any way to remove repeated or unused path variables from my PATH?

Thanks.

Hangdog42 · 06-23-2003, 07:11 AM

You're going to have to do a little looking. The PATH can be set by pretty much any executable file, but the most likely places are your .bash_profile (or whatever startup file your console uses) or in the /etc/profile file.

moses · 06-23-2003, 09:53 AM

Here is a C program one of our old-time sysadmins wrote to collapse word lists:
http://pirlwww.lpl.arizona.edu/~mmilazzo/lq/cwl.tgz
It comes with a section 1 man page so you can place the *.1 file in your manpath under cat1 (/usr/man/cat1). You'll have to compile the program, but it should just work. IMHO, it needs a lot of work, but it does do its job right now.

This only removes repeated paths, but with a little work it could be a much more useful program. . .