I am pretty new to the Mac environment so I have lots of gaps knowledge-wise. I need to edit the order of the PATH variables that my system uses. I have a .zshrc file in my home directory which has the following contents as of now:

export PATH="$PATH:/Users/mehmetsanisoglu/Desktop/Programs/flutter/bin"
export PATH="$PATH:/Users/mehmetsanisoglu/.rbenv/shims"

that's all, just these two lines. But when I type echo $PATH I get:

/opt/homebrew/bin:/opt/homebrew/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/bin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/sbin:/Library/TeX/texbin:/Library/Apple/usr/bin:/Applications/Postgres.app/Contents/Versions/latest/bin:/Users/mehmetsanisoglu/bin:/opt/homebrew/bin:/opt/homebrew/sbin:/Users/mehmetsanisoglu/Desktop/Programs/flutter/bin:/Users/mehmetsanisoglu/.rbenv/shims

I am guessing the .zshrc file I have crated appends the items I have in there to the actual list of PATH elements. My question is, how do I get there and edit the ordering of these elements, because I need the ".rbenv" to come before "/usr/bin". Thanks

CodePudding user response：

zsh has a special array variable path that's linked to PATH - changing one changes the other. Treating the path as an array of directories is often much handier than treating it as a string of colon-separated directories.

You can append to it with

path =(/some/path)
# or
path =(/some/path/1 some/path/2)

and prepend to it with

path[1,0]=/some/path
# or
path[1,0]=(/some/path/1 /some/path2)