My earlier message was wrong, addpath is used by setting a variable first:

{{{
set _path=%OSGEO4W_ROOT%bin
call %OSGEO4W_ROOT%\bin\addpath.bat _path
set _path=
}}}

I'm not sure why the author uses that method when passing the actual desired path would be more straightforward, from a user's point of view. However as I don't understand everything the file does I'm not going to mess with it just yet.

The above is now part of pkg-shell v 1.0.0-9, which has been tested and works on my machine. I promoted it to regular use. More testing and feedback welcome.

cheers,

matt wilkie
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On 30-Mar-2012 12:31 PM, Matt Wilkie wrote:
Hi Folks,

As indicated in ticket #284 I believe I've found a relatively robust
method for cleanly adding directories to PATH without risk of duplicate
entries.  There are now (about to be) 2 new batch files in the Shell
package: inpath and addpath.

INPATH: Is the specified directory in PATH?||||The result is returned as
the ERRORLEVEL:

0 if the pathVar path is found in PATH.
1 if the pathVar path is not found in PATH.
2 if pathVar is missing or undefined or if PATH is undefined.

Example use:

     |set test=c:\osgeo4w\bin|
     |call inPath test&&  (echo found) || (echo not found)|


ADDPATH:  Safely appends the path contained within variable pathVar to
the end of PATH if and only if the path does not already exist within
PATH. Use "/b" to prepend to beginning.

Example use:

     |addpath /b %OSGEO4W_ROOT%|
     ||


See
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/141344/how-to-check-if-directory-exists-in-path
for detailed info on what these scripts do and how they're built.

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