PATH Variable
Similar to the XPATH environment variable, the shell uses the PATH variable as a list of directories to search to find external (OS) programs.
As of version 1.0.2 xmlsh performs the following on startup.
- Converts platform specific directory seperator to "/"
- Splits the PATH variable using the OS specific path seperator charactor i
- Stores the result into the xmlsh variable PATH as a sequence of xs:string
On executing subprocesses xmlsh exports the PATH variable to the subprocess by reversing process and reconstructing the PATH variable to the OS native representation.
Note that on some OS's environment variables are case in-sensitive (Windows). In these OS's any case for PATH (such as "Path") is converted to all upper case PATH.
Example: Set the PATH variable to the directory C:/xmlshscripts
PATH=C:/xmlshscripts
To set to 2 directories using a sequence constructor
PATH=(C:/xmlshscripts c:/MyDir/scripts)
Append to the PATH variable
PATH+=/my/directory
Variables
VariableXPATH
CommandExecution
