How to manipulate the environment before topgrade uses it, or override command paths?

[jchonig]

I have a personal bin directory that has some commands that conflict with commands that topgrade expects. There are two ways I could see to address this, are either of them implemented?

A config command that allows manipulation of the PATH environment variable before topgrade reads it.

[pre_command]
"ENV_PATH" = "export PATH $(echo $PATH | sed -re \"s%${HOME}/bin[^:]*:%:%g")\"

The ability to specify the full path of a command to run for any step:

[gem]
bin_path = "/usr/bin/gem"

Thanks.

Jeff

[SteveLauC]

Topgrade has a cli option to set a environment variable before executing the underlying commands, which seems to work in your case

Approach 2 is not implemented

[jchonig]

Yes, --cli will work (not sure why this exists when you can just run PATH=blah topgrade, for Windows?), however I was looking for a config file based solution, not something where I have to write a shell wrapper.

Thanks.

Jeff

[SteveLauC]

I see, seems reasonable to add a config entry for it, mind opening a feature request issue?

[jchonig]

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