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Inspired by a tool I can not find anymore on the internet: utok 1.5. I use it to clean up path settings in large shell script configuration setups.

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pyUTok - Unique TOKens in python

Inspired by a tool I can not find anymore on the internet: utok 1.5. I use it to clean up path settings in large shell script configuration setups.

utok has the following options:

usage: utok [-h] [--delimiter DELIMITER] [--delete-list DELETE_LIST]
            [--version]
            token [token ...]

positional arguments:
  token

optional arguments:
  -h, --help            show this help message and exit
  --delimiter DELIMITER, -s DELIMITER
                        Allows one to change the delimiter. If you use csh you
                        might want to set your path with something like: set
                        path = (`utok -s \ /usr/local/bin $path`) (default: :)
  --delete-list DELETE_LIST, -d DELETE_LIST
                        Allows one to remove tokens from a list, to remove
                        /usr/sbin and . from a path in Bourne Shell one might
                        use: PATH=`utok $PATH -d .:/usr/sbin` (default: None)
  --version, -V         show program's version number and exit

Availability

The latest version should be available at https://gitlab.com/berhoel/python/pyutok

Description

utok, Unique TOKens, takes a list of arguments with delimiters and reject all duplicate entries. Here is a example using MANPATH:

$ echo $MANPATH
/usr/man:/usr/local/man
$ MANPATH=`utok $HOME/local/man /usr/local/man $MANPATH /usr/openwin/man`
$ export MANPATH
$ echo $MANPATH
/home/sven/local/man:/usr/local/man:/usr/man:/usr/openwin/man

Even though /usr/local/man was included a second time it is only in the MANPATH once, though it is now before the /usr/man entry instead of after it.

This version adds the -d option to remove tokens. To remove . from the PATH one would do the following:

$ echo $PATH
/usr/local/bin:.:/usr/bin:/usr/sbin
$ PATH=`utok -d .: $PATH`
$ echo PATH
/usr/local/bin:/usr/bin:/usr/sbin
$ export PATH

Requested Features

  • Have a way to to push an element further back in the path. A work around of this would be be something like

    utok `utok a:b:c:d -d b` b
    

    , which returns: a:c:d:b

  • Have a way to include multiple -s options.

Feedback

Comments or bug reports/fixes go to Berthold Höllmann bhoel@web.de.

Copyright © 2020 Berthold Höllmann bhoel@web.de

Original C version: Copyright © 1998 Sven Heinicke sven@zen.org

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