How to keep from duplicating path variable in csh

Question

It is typical to have something like this in your cshrc file for setting the path:

set path = ( . $otherpath $path )

but, the path gets dup

Answer 1

ok, not in csh, but this is how I append $HOME/bin to my path in bash...

case $PATH in
    *:$HOME/bin | *:$HOME/bin:* ) ;;
    *) export PATH=$PATH:$HOME/bin
esac

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