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Path Environment Variable Quick Switcher for PowerShell

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You may want to turn on and off the PATH environment variable, for example, when you use UNIX tools with MSYS2.

It's annoying like this.

» $prevPath = $Env:Path
» $Env:Path = "$Env:MSYS2\bin;$Env:MSYS2\mingw64\bin;$Env:Path"
» # do some work with MSYS2
» $Env:Path = $prevPath
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Or you may want to change each version of compilers.

powershell-path-switcher supports this.

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Path Environment Variable Quick Switcher

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Path Environment Variable Quick Switcher.

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Install

Invoke the following commands to install this.

> Install-Module path-switcher
> Import-Module path-switcher
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HEAD

If you want to use HEAD, follow this instruction.

> git clone git@github.com:kakkun61/powershell-path-switcher.git
> Import-Module .\powershell-path-switcher\path-switcher.psd1 # -Force option may be necessary
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Configuration

This module treats three types of configurations:

  • local configuration
  • user global configuration
  • system global configuration

Local configuration

A local configuration is named powershell-path-switcher.yaml and located at the current working directory or its parents recursively.

User global configuration

A user global configuration is named config.yaml and located at $Env:APPDATA\powershell-path-switcher.

System global configuration

A system global configuration is named config.yaml and located at $Env:ProgramData\powershell-path-switcher.

Overwriting

When the configurations have the same keys, upper ones overwrite.

For example there are following configurations:

# local configuration
foo:
…
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Interactive select

A quick view is at this video.

Prepare a configuration file,

# $Env:ProgramData\powershell-path-switcher\config.yaml
msys2-usr:     C:\tools\msys64\usr\bin
msys2-mingw64: C:\tools\msys64\mingw64\bin
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and invoke Switch-Path.

» Switch-Path
> [ ] msys2-usr: C:\tools\msys64\usr\bin
  [ ] msys2-mingw64: C:\tools\msys64\mingw64\bin
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You can move its cursor (>) up/down with ↑/↓ keys, select (check by x) with the space key and reflect with the enter key.

When you want to remove a specified path from the PATH variable, you can delete it by removing its check mark (x).

For more information see a README.

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