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 To: cygwin@cygwin.com From: zzapper Subject: Re: Synchronizing Windows & Cygwin Paths Date: Sun, 24 Jul 2005 09:01:31 +0100 Lines: 26 Message-ID: References: <81cec738050722205620ba727e@mail.gmail.com> <42E1EABD.5AB62B86@dessent.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-IsSubscribed: yes On Fri, 22 Jul 2005 23:59:09 -0700, wrote: >Rex Eastbourne wrote: > >> Is there a way to synchronize the Cygwin $PATH with the Windows Path, >> so that I can run Windows applications from within my Bash shell (i.e. >> typing "mathematica" will open the corresponding file, which is in >> Program Files somewhere)? > Cygstart is a wonderful tool for launching Windows Apps from CYG man cygstart There's also cygpath You can also do some clever stuff with mount, ln etc For good Measure putclip, getclip (copy paste) -- zzapper vim -c ":%s%s*%Cyrnfr)fcbafbe[Oenz(Zbbyranne%|:%s)[[()])-)Ig|norm Vg?" http://www.rayninfo.co.uk/tips/ vim, zsh & success tips -- 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/