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From: "Sean Champ" <symmetry_web AT email DOT msn DOT com>
To: <cygwin-developers AT sourceware DOT cygnus DOT com>
Subject: bouncing along the %PATH%
Date: Fri, 17 Mar 2000 19:14:47 -0800
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is there any way to set things up so that a search (eg: whatever the software does when it looks for a command you've called) will recurse through sub-directories of something set int %PATH%?

if so, even if it's a long-shot, could you maybe point me towards the place in the source-code, where I'd have to start chipping, to get to this?


<motivation>

  i'm probably not the first person who's thought that /usr/local/bin is seriously over-stuffed with things, and that it might be better off to package it into branches, if it wasn't for getting a huge %PATH% (which isn't necessaritly terrible to look at, but I guess it can eat up the time on command-line calls, especially if things aren't ordered well enough when the %PATH% is set.)

</motivation>



-- sean