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Date:	Wed, 28 Mar 2001 16:06:39 +0000
From:	"malcolm.boekhoff" <malcolm DOT boekhoff AT actfs DOT co DOT uk>
To:	cygwin AT cygwin DOT com
Subject:	Re: Space in PATH replaced with :?!
Message-ID:	<20010328160639.A415@BOEKHOFF_M>
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In-Reply-To:	<3AC20668.3A5A485@uab.ericsson.se>; from Johan.Niklasson@uab.ericsson.se on Wed, Mar 28, 2001 at 05:42:32PM +0200

I don't know whether this is any good, but I take MS VC out of the path in my scripts like this:

PATH=`echo $PATH | tr : \\\\n | tr [A-Z] [a-z] | sed "/program files/d" | tr \\\\n :`; export PATH

This removes all the paths with "program files" in them from my PATH.

On 2001-03-28 17:42:32, Johan Niklasson wrote:
> Hi!
> 
> On NT4 sp 4, cygwin 1.1.8
> I have a problem with my path getting distorted by tr and sed.
> I do not want to change my path to the old DOS-form~2
> 
> I wonder if there is some setting I have wrong, or do I simply have to
> live with this problem, as suggested by the FAQ?
> 
> My path shall look like this:
> 
> /bin:cygwin/usr/include:.:/usr/bin:/usr/lib:/Winnt/System32/:/Program
> Files/ESOE/Microsoft Visual Studio/Common/MSDev98/Bin:/Program
> Files/ESOE/Microsoft Visual Studio/VC60/bin.....
> 
> But after issuing this command in a tcsh 
> set path = `echo $PATH | tr : '\n' | grep -v "LM_"`
> 
> it looks like:
> 
> /bin:cygwin/usr/include:.:/usr/bin:/usr/lib:/Winnt/System32/:/Program:Files/ESOE/Microsoft:Visual:Studio/Common/MSDev98/Bin:/Program:Files/ESOE/Microsoft:Visual:Studio/VC60/bin.....
> 
> which gives me problems to use VS compiler.
>  
> Some of the setting I have is:
> CYGWIN=tty ntea ntsec
> TERM=ansi
> TERMCAP=C:\etc\termcap
> 
> If anyone has a solution this problem I'd be most grateful.
> 
> Best regards
> Johan Niklasson
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