The files are processed in order. It doesn't look like that's explicit in the man page, but you can see the source here: http://opensource.apple.com/source/shell_cmds/shell_cmds-179/path_helper/pat...
On Nov 16, 2015, at 14:18, Tom Carpenter <thomaslc@umass.edu> wrote:
I recently installed XQuartz 2.7.8 on an El Capitan 10.11.1 system. I asked Apple tech support about this (didn't get a definitive answer...they thought maybe it was some way of identifying a file version): what is the significance of the '40-' prefix of the file '/etc/paths.d/40-Xquartz'? 'udev' on Linux uses numeric prefixes to control the order in which 'udev' processes configuration files; do the numeric prefixes of path_helper files control the order in which path statements are appended to the system PATH? If numeric prefixes are a feature of path_helper is that aspect of path_helper files documented anywhere?
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