Use your favorite text editor to modify and update your $PATH
- Copy or move
pedit.shto whatever permanent installation location you want. - Add an alias to your
.profile,.bashrc, etc. that sourcespedit.sh:
alias pedit='source /path/to/pedit.sh'
When you run your pedit alias from a shell, your $EDITOR will launch with a
temp file containing all directories on your $PATH, one per line. Make changes to the
order, remove directories, etc. When you are happy with the changes, save the
file and exit the editor. Your $PATH will be updated with the new list of
directories.
If you exit your editor without saving, or there are no valid entries, the
$PATH is not updated.
You can optionally specify a different path-like environment variable to edit as the first argument on the command line, e.g.,
pedit PYTHONPATH