The files are processed in order. It doesn't look like that's explicit in the man page, but you can see the source here:
http://opensource.apple.com/source/shell_cmds/shell_cmds-179/path_helper/path_helper.c > On Nov 16, 2015, at 14:18, Tom Carpenter <thoma...@umass.edu> wrote: > > I recently installed XQuartz 2.7.8 on an El Capitan 10.11.1 system. I asked > Apple tech support about this (didn't get a definitive answer...they thought > maybe it was some way of identifying a file version): what is the significance > of the '40-' prefix of the file '/etc/paths.d/40-Xquartz'? 'udev' on Linux > uses > numeric prefixes to control the order in which 'udev' processes configuration > files; do the numeric prefixes of path_helper files control the order in which > path statements are appended to the system PATH? If numeric prefixes are > a feature of path_helper is that aspect of path_helper files documented > anywhere? > > -- > Tom Carpenter > Computer Systems Specialist > Biology Department > 221 Morrill Science Center > 611 North Pleasant Street > Amherst, MA 01003-9297 > > (413) 577-2311 (P) > (413) 545-3243 (F) > > > _______________________________________________ > Xquartz-dev mailing list > Xquartz-dev@lists.macosforge.org > https://lists.macosforge.org/mailman/listinfo/xquartz-dev >
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