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Date:	Thu, 20 Feb 2014 10:18:42 -0500
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Thank you very much for information. I think I can get it now.

Todd Poole

On 2/20/2014 10:01 AM, Eliot Moss wrote:
> On 2/20/2014 8:34 AM, Nellis, Kenneth wrote:
>> From: Todd Poole
>>> Hi all
>>> Really new to Cygwin. Is there a way to setup Cygwin so when I got to
>>> terminal to type a command I don't have to enter the complete path as
>>> shown here:
>>>
>>> $ cd /cygdrive/c/directory name
>>>
>>> Anyway to setup to where I might just enter
>>>
>>> $ c/directory name
>>>
>>> or something like it?
>>
>> I suggest you look into the CDPATH environment variable.
>
> That would simplify what you type as an argument to the cd command.
>
> If you are wanting to be able to invoke a command foo without typing
> its whole path, then you need its directory in the PATH variable.
> PATH in cygwin is similar to PATH on Windows, but the format is
> more like Unix: / instead of \, : instead of ;, and so on.  The
> command:
>
> echo $PATH
>
> will show you the default.  You can add a directory to be searched
> after the default ones by doing something like:
>
> PATH="${PATH}:additional-directory"
>
> The quotes are important if anything in PATH has spaces or other "strange"
> characters.
>
> By the way, this is standard Unix / bash stuff.  cygwin kind of assumes
> that you
> are familiar with Unix, since its purpose is to offer a Unix-like
> environment
> on Windows.  (bash, the Bourne-again shell, is the default shell brought
> up in
> a cygwin terminal window.)
>
> Best wishes -- Eliot Moss
>
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