emb978@leah.albany.edu (Eric M. Boehm) (08/12/88)
[This was attached to the submission of epath and ff sent by feg@clyde.UUCP (Forrest Gehrke), relayed to me by Dick Flanagan. I don't know if it was a separate submission from Eric M. Boehm, or if Forrest Gehrke sent it.] This is a posting of batch files to change your path "on the fly". They were taken from a PC Magazine article. I don't have the reference right now, but if it is needed, I can submit it. The main file, CHPATH.BAT, is fairly simple. If you type "CHPATH" with no arguments or the wrong arguments, it will print out a help message. Note that the old path is saved in RESTORE.BAT. If you hop around a lot, you will end up with quite a few RESTORE.BATs floating around your hard disk. You may want to change it to write the file in a specific directory. ERIC M. BOEHM EMB978@ALBNY1VX.BITNET EMB978@LEAH.ALBANY.EDU ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ECHO OFF REM CHPATH.BAT IF %2!==! GOTO ERROR PATH >RESTORE.BAT SET M=%1 SET P=%2 IF !%2==!-DB CPSET1 %PATH% IF !%2==!-db CPSET1 %PATH% IF !%2==!-DE CPSET2 %PATH% IF !%2==!-de CPSET2 %PATH% IF !%2==!-I CPSET3 %PATH% IF !%2==!-i CPSET3 %PATH% SET P= SET M= IF !%2==!-B PATH=%1;%PATH% IF !%2==!-b PATH=%1;%PATH% IF !%2==!-E PATH=%PATH%;%1 IF !%2==!-e PATH=%PATH%;%1 PATH GOTO END :ERROR ECHO Current path is: PATH ECHO Proper syntax is: ECHO %0 DIRECTORY [-B -E -I -DB -DE] ECHO -B inserts DIRECTORY at the Beginning of the PATH ECHO -E inserts DIRECTORY at the End of the PATH ECHO -DB deletes from DIRECTORY to the Beginning of the PATH ECHO -DE deletes from DIRECTORY to the End of the PATH ECHO -I deletes DIRECTORY from the PATH ECHO When deleting DIRECOTRY, type DIRECTORY in ALL CAPS :END ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ECHO OFF REM CPSET1.BAT CPSET2 %9;%8;%7;%6;%5;%4;%3;%2;%1 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ECHO OFF REM CPSET2.BAT SET PATH= :LOOP IF !%P%==!-DB PATH=%1;%PATH% IF !%P%==!-db PATH=%1;%PATH% IF !%P%==!-DE PATH=%PATH%%1; IF !%P%==!-de PATH=%PATH%%1; SHIFT IF NOT !%1==! IF NOT !%1==!%M% GOTO LOOP SET M= SET P= PATH ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ECHO OFF REM CPSET3.BAT SET PATH= :LOOP IF NOT %1==%M% PATH=%PATH%%1; SHIFT IF NOT !%1==! GOTO LOOP SET M= SET P= PATH