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Rework handling of PATH-like variables in GMXRC.bash/zsh

Andrey Alekseenko requested to merge fix-manpath-in-gmxrc-2020 into release-2020

Backport of !808 (merged) to release-2020.

Old version was not robust to various kinds of trailing colons, as experienced in, e.g., #3219 (closed).

To make it all safer, a single function, that removes the old path and adds the new one to the beginning, is introduced.

Tested with:

  • GNU bash 4.4.20
  • GNU bash 5.0.17
  • zsh 5.8
  • dash 0.5.8
$ replace_in_path ":" "/new" "/old"
/new:
$ replace_in_path "" "/new" "/old"
/new
$ replace_in_path "/old" "/new" "/old"
/new
$ replace_in_path "/old:" "/new" "/old"
/new:
$ replace_in_path "/old:/other" "/new" "/old"
/new:/other
$ replace_in_path ":/other" "/new" "/old"
/new::/other
$ replace_in_path "/other:" "/new" "/old"
/new:/other:
$ replace_in_path "/other:/old" "/new" "/old"
/new:/other

Full test:

$ bash -c 'MANPATH=''; . scripts/GMXRC.bash; echo $MANPATH;'
/usr/local/gromacs/share/man
$ bash -c 'MANPATH=':'; . scripts/GMXRC.bash; echo $MANPATH;'
/usr/local/gromacs/share/man:
$ bash -c 'MANPATH='/abc'; . scripts/GMXRC.bash; echo $MANPATH;'
/usr/local/gromacs/share/man:/abc
$ bash -c 'MANPATH='/abc:'; . scripts/GMXRC.bash; echo $MANPATH;'
/usr/local/gromacs/share/man:/abc:

$ bash -c 'MANPATH=':'; . scripts/GMXRC.bash; . scripts/GMXRC.bash; . scripts/GMXRC.bash; echo $MANPATH;'
/usr/local/gromacs/share/man:
$ bash -c 'MANPATH=''; . scripts/GMXRC.bash; . scripts/GMXRC.bash; . scripts/GMXRC.bash; echo $MANPATH;'
/usr/local/gromacs/share/man
$ bash -c 'MANPATH='/abc'; . scripts/GMXRC.bash; . scripts/GMXRC.bash; . scripts/GMXRC.bash; echo $MANPATH;'
/usr/local/gromacs/share/man:/abc
$ bash -c 'MANPATH='/abc:'; . scripts/GMXRC.bash; . scripts/GMXRC.bash; . scripts/GMXRC.bash; echo $MANPATH;'
/usr/local/gromacs/share/man:/abc:

Closes #2628 (closed), #3219 (closed)

Edited by Andrey Alekseenko

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