On Mon, Feb 16, 2009 at 9:26 AM, Angel Tsankov <fn42...@fmi.uni-sofia.bg> wrote: > Jon Seymour wrote: >> There may be other ways to do this, but: >> >> CPATH="${CPATH}${CPATH:+:}$(echo ~usr1/blah/blah)" >> >> should work. > > Well, I'd like to avoid the use of external commands. >
echo is a builtin, so if you are worried about performance costs associated with its execution, you shouldn't be. > --Angel > > > > > >