From 59effd5ceba6f28e2bc2edd2b927abb4556f63b5 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Jeff Carr <jcarr@wit.com>
Date: Mon, 27 Oct 2025 20:38:47 -0500
Subject: add paths to the shell ENV PATH

---
 addpath.go | 27 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++
 1 file changed, 27 insertions(+)
 create mode 100644 addpath.go

(limited to 'addpath.go')

diff --git a/addpath.go b/addpath.go
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..22f6c1e
--- /dev/null
+++ b/addpath.go
@@ -0,0 +1,27 @@
+package env
+
+import (
+	"os"
+	"strings"
+
+	"go.wit.com/log"
+)
+
+// this is an experiment at this point to
+// see how this turns out
+
+// adds a path to the ENV
+func AddPath(newpath string) bool {
+	path := os.Getenv("PATH")
+	for _, p := range strings.Split(path, ":") {
+		log.Info("Looking at path:", p)
+		if p == newpath {
+			log.Info("FOUND path:", p)
+			return false
+		}
+	}
+	path = path + ":" + newpath
+	log.Info("ADDING PATH:", path)
+	os.Setenv("PATH", path)
+	return true
+}
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