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Date: Fri, 21 Sep 2012 14:28:55 -0400
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Subject: Re: Cygwin corrupted taskkill in windows commandline
From: Earnie Boyd <earnie AT users DOT sourceforge DOT net>
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On Fri, Sep 21, 2012 at 11:59 AM, Voris, Ben wrote:
> On my system, taskkill is /cygdrive/c/Windows/system32/taskkill.  That is,
> it is not part of Cygwin but is part of Windows.  I suspect either that your
> PATH no longer includes /cygdrive/c/Windows/system32 or that taskkill.exe
> has been removed from that Windows directory.

If it is 64 bit system then it will not be available in a 32 bit
process such as Cygwin's bash in that directory.  You'll need to look
at /cygdrive/c/Windows/sysnative/taskkill instead.

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