This sort of thing is not too difficult to do in pure shell commands. Here's some code I picked up a while back after a quick google search. (original source)

Example Usage

add_path $HOME/bin
add_path $HOME/perl PERL5LIB

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The functions

#    @(#)Copyright (c) 1991 Simon J. Gerraty
#
#    This file is provided in the hope that it will
#    be of use.  There is absolutely NO WARRANTY.
#    Permission to copy, redistribute or otherwise
#    use this file is hereby granted provided that
#    the above copyright notice and this notice are
#    left intact.
#
# Modified by Dean Serenevy (2005) for more robust quoting

# is $1 missing from $2 (or PATH) ?
no_path() { eval "case \":\$${2-PATH}:\" in *:\"$1\":*) return 1;; *) 
+return 0;; esac"; }
# if $1 exists and is not in path, append it
add_path() { [ -d ${1:-.} ] && no_path $* && eval ${2:-PATH}="\$${2:-P
+ATH}:$1"; }
# if $1 exists and is not in path, prepend it
pre_path() { [ -d ${1:-.} ] && no_path $* && eval ${2:-PATH}="$1:\$${2
+:-PATH}"; }
# if $1 is in path, remove it
del_path() { no_path $* || eval ${2:-PATH}=`eval echo :'$'${2:-PATH}: 
+| sed -e "s;:$1:;:;g" -e "s;^:;;" -e "s;:\$;;"`; }

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Good Day,
    Dean

In reply to Re: Perl Path Editor for Unix by duelafn
in thread Perl Path Editor for Unix by 5p1d3r

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