Modifying PATH with fish shell

Question

I\'m currently playing around with the fish shell and I\'m having some trouble wrapping my head around how the PATH variable is set. For what it\'s worth, I\'m

Answer 1

The recommended commands for modifying PATH from fish's maintainers are:

1. If you want to run the command once:

   set -Ua fish_user_paths /path
   

2. If you want to add a command to a startup script, this is idempotent:

    contains /path $fish_user_paths; or set -Ua fish_user_paths /path