======PATH Variable======

Similar to the [[VariableXPATH 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
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PATH=C:/xmlshscripts
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To set to 2 directories using a sequence constructor
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PATH=(C:/xmlshscripts c:/MyDir/scripts)
%%

Append to the PATH variable
%%
PATH+=/my/directory
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[[Variables]]
[[VariableXPATH]]
[[CommandExecution]]