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Extending a list in Elvish shell (modifying $PATH)

By default Elvish (macOS, Homebrew) has a basic PATH definition:

~> echo $paths
[/usr/bin /bin /usr/sbin /sbin]

I'd like to add /usr/local/bin and /usr/local/sbin items to it, but without writing literals from scratch like

set paths = [/usr/bin /bin /usr/sbin /sbin /usr/local/bin /usr/local/sbin]

Basic pattern for more common shells is, of course

export PATH="/usr/local/bin:/usr/local/sbin:$PATH"

Lists in Elvish are immutable, so I'd like to do something like

set paths = paths + [/usr/local/bin /usr/local/sbin]

But I haven't find anything in docs, and my attempts fail:

~> set paths = paths + [/usr/local/bin /usr/local/sbin]
Exception: arity mismatch: assignment right-hand-side must be 1 value, but is 3 values
[tty 2]:1:1: set paths = paths + [/usr/local/bin /usr/local/sbin]

~> set paths = [$paths /usr/local/bin /usr/local/sbin]
Exception: path must be string
[tty 3]:1:5: set paths = [$paths /usr/local/bin /usr/local/sbin]
Solution

  • You can either modify the path directly with set E:PATH = "/usr/local/bin:/usr/local/sbin:"$E:PATH, or use conj like this set paths = (conj $paths /usr/local/bin /usr/local/sbin).