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Date: | Wed, 25 May 2005 11:58:45 -0700 |
From: | Yitzchak Scott-Thoennes <sthoenna AT efn DOT org> |
To: | cygwin AT cygwin DOT com |
Subject: | Re: PATH oddity |
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On Wed, May 25, 2005 at 11:28:43AM -0700, Karl M wrote: > Hi All... > > While looking at my PATH environment variable (in response to the recent > postings about sshd and environment variables), I noticed that "." was > included. > > It was caused by a double ; ( a ";;" sequence) in my PATH as defined in the > Windows XP My Computer Properties panel. > > It is not an immediate problem, but it seemed a bit odd. This has been discussed here before; IIRC (and I may not), the . is the equivalent of what windows does. An empty entry in the windows path (;; in the middle or ; at the beginning or end) makes it search the current directory. -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/
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