If you've ever looked at your .bashrc file and wondered how the heck it got so weirdly out of control, look no further than the slow migration of "local changes" to the .local folder, and the number of language– or framework-specific environments that are now kept there.

There's much to recommend this move, not the least of which is decluttering the $HOME directory. But my biggest pet peeve was the $PATH variable, which seemed to just grow and grow in my .bashrc file into an unreadable string. I've decided to fix that. Here's how.