Question

I have an apps directory in my dropbox – I’d like to be able to access all of them from the command line without having to set up loads and loads of path variables. Is there any way to set up a recursive path variable? I tried putting ** at the end – no joy.

Answer 1

You can’t use placeholders or anything like that in the PATH environment variable. It’s just a concatenation of directories, no additional features.

So either add all of the app directories to the PATHenvironment variable or think about other ways to solve the problem. For example, you could add one directory to the PATH and place batch files named like the apps there that start the apps.