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Date:	Fri, 26 Nov 2004 15:46:09 -0500 (EST)
From:	Igor Pechtchanski <pechtcha AT cs DOT nyu DOT edu>
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To:	Jason Curl <j DOT m DOT curl AT optusnet DOT com DOT au>
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Subject:	Re: PATH and SystemRoot oddity
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On Fri, 26 Nov 2004, Jason Curl wrote:

> I have a similar question: I had to modify 'profile' to change
>   $PATH=xxxx:$PATH
> to
>   $PATH=xxxx
>
> How can I simply add $SYSTEMROOT:$SYSTEMROOT/system32 to this? It
> doesn't work as-is because $SYSTEMROOT = C:\Windows (and this is
> therefore not interpreted by the path). Rephrasing, what do I use to
> translate "C:\WINDOWS" to "/cygdrive/c/windows"?
>
> I had to do this because some nasty things in my path were causing
> problems (e.g. ClearQuest/ClearCase)

First off, you could have actually removed the offending entries from the
PATH using something like

OFFENDING_ENTRY="/cygdrive/c/ClearCase/bin"
PATH="`echo "$PATH" | sed "s#:$OFFENDING_ENTRY##"`"

Alternatively, if you want to translate any Win32 path to a Cygwin (POSIX)
path, use the "cygpath" utility, like this:

PATH=${PATH}:"`cygpath -u "$SYSTEMROOT/system32"`"

HTH,
	Igor
P.S. FWIW, the question is not that similar, and you should probably have
started a new thread with it.
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