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Sasha Slijepcevic via Cygwin wrote:
> On 3/28/2020, Thomas Wolff wrote:
> 
>> Am 28.03.2020 um 02:09 schrieb Sasha Slijepcevic via Cygwin:
>>> I am using Cygwin 3.1.4-1, bash 4.4.12-3 and dash 0.5.9.1-1.
>>>
>>> I have a setup.exe in the root of my Cygwin installation, C:\cygwin64, for example.
>>> If I set PATH=C:\cygwin64;C:\cygwin64\bin, I can run setup.exe from bash.
>>>
>>> C:\>set PATH=C:\cygwin64;C:\cygwin64\bin
>>>
>>> C:\>bash
>>> $ echo $PATH
>>> /:/usr/bin
>>> $ setup-x86_64.exe  --version
>>> Cygwin setup 2.903
>>>
>>> However, in dash:
>>> C:\>dash
>>> $ echo $PATH
>>> /:/usr/bin
>>> $ setup-x86-64.exe --version
>>> dash: 2: setup-x86-64.exe: not found
>>>
>>> Am I misusing Cygwin trying to run executables from the top of the installation? Is it expected to all shells would behave the
>>> same?

You mis-typed the name of the executable when trying dash.

..mark
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