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From: | ericblake AT comcast DOT net (Eric Blake) |
To: | Reid Thompson <Reid DOT Thompson AT ateb DOT com>, |
Ross MacGillivray <ross_macgillivray AT yahoo DOT ca>, cygwin AT cygwin DOT com | |
Subject: | RE: Path Statement Not Being Evaluated by Bash in Cygwin |
Date: | Tue, 05 Jul 2005 20:34:20 +0000 |
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> > when I start bash and enter 'echo $path'. This is the path statement > > returned. > > Not sure how you've got things setup, but `echo $path` should result in > an empty return statement. the variable is PATH not path, case > sensitive. > Or maybe you are thinking of tcsh syntax, where $path is a space-separated synonym for the colon-separated $PATH. tcsh syntax doesn't work in bash (hopefully, it is obvious why not), and your listing had colons, so even if you were to use tcsh with that $path you would have problems. -- Eric Blake cygwin bash maintainer -- 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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