Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@cygwin.com Date: Mon, 24 Feb 2003 09:24:25 -0800 (PST) From: Michael A Chase Subject: Re: Solving: Quotes in $PATH not translated properly To: "'cygwin@cygwin.com'" , Harald Kierer Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; CHARSET=US-ASCII Content-Disposition: INLINE References: <8C6D4989662C304087C58904BAB721A54B73D4@Hermes.astrum.de> In-Reply-To: <8C6D4989662C304087C58904BAB721A54B73D4@Hermes.astrum.de> On Mon, 24 Feb 2003 17:22:54 +0100 Harald Kierer wrote: > a current problem when invoking cygwin is: if the Windows PATH > variable has quoted paths then cygwin won't translate those paths to > POSIX properly, so you end up with an incomplete $PATH: > > T:\bin>echo %PATH% > "C:\Program Files\abc";[...] Are the quotes absolutely necessary inside %path%? If not, removing them would be a useful workaround. > So when I start a login bash everything is nice: > > T:\src>bash --login > > [/t/src] $ echo $PATH > /usr/local/bin:/usr/bin:/bin:/c/Program Files/abc:[...] > My remaining problem: > We launch a lot of scripts from the DOS Box, like 'sh script.sh'. > This doesn't invoke the profile. How can I launch this path-parser-script > every time a bash or ash gets started? Just like you show above, with --login. -rcfile is also possible. One problem with doing either blindly is that /etc/profile might change the current directory. See http://home.ix.netcom.com/~mchase/zip/Bash_This.reg for some example "one liners" that work around that problem. If the scripts expect to be called from a DOS prompt, something like the following inside them might help: if [ -z "$PS1" ]; then cwd="$PWD" . /etc/profile cd "$cwd" fi It would be easier to launch your scripts from a normal bash prompt if at all possible. -- Mac :}) ** I normally forward private questions to the appropriate mail list. ** Ask Smarter: http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html Give a hobbit a fish and he eats fish for a day. Give a hobbit a ring and he eats fish for an age. -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Bug reporting: http://cygwin.com/bugs.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/