Adding a new entry to the PATH variable in ZSH

Question

I\'m using zsh and I\'m trying to add a new entry (/home/david/pear/bin) to the PATH variable but I don\'t know how.

The thing that confuse

Answer 1

Actually, using ZSH allows you to use special mapping of environment variables. So you can simply do:

# append
path+=('/home/david/pear/bin')
# or prepend
path=('/home/david/pear/bin' $path)
# export to sub-processes (make it inherited by child processes)
export PATH

For me that's a very neat feature which can be propagated to other variables. Example:

typeset -T LD_LIBRARY_PATH ld_library_path :