Hi,
The solution proposed by VSarkiss is interesying, but it has two drawbacks. First, it only applies to bash or sh, and second, does not generalize to other PATH like variables. I think this one solves these problems.

• Put the following in your .profile if you are using sh or bash:

  PATH =`munch.pl $PATH`
  [download]

  This is replaced by:

  setenv PATH `munch.pl $PATH`
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  to put in .cshrc if you are using csh or tcsh.
• The munch.pl script (why, VSarkiss, I like that name:)) is something like this:

  #!/usr/bin/perl -w
  use strict;
  my @comp = split /:/,shift;
  my %saw = ();
  @saw{@comp} = ();
  print join ":",keys %saw;
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This gives the following under bash:

$ TEST="a:b:c:a:c:z:a:b:z"
$ echo $TEST 
a:b:c:a:c:z:a:b:z
$ TEST=`tmp/test.pl $TEST`
$ echo $TEST
a:z:b:c
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and the following under csh:

> setenv TEST "a:b:c:a:c:z:a:b:z"
> echo $TEST
a:b:c:a:c:z:a:b:z
> setenv TEST `tmp/test.pl $TEST`
> echo $TEST
a:z:b:c
[download]

Hope that helps....

Cheers

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Leo TheHobbit

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