X-Recipient: archive-cygwin@delorie.com X-SWARE-Spam-Status: No, hits=-2.0 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00,RCVD_IN_DNSWL_LOW,SPF_HELO_PASS,SPF_PASS X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org To: cygwin@cygwin.com From: ABCD Subject: Re: Bug in $PATH initialization? Date: Mon, 08 Jun 2009 18:28:48 -0400 Lines: 43 Message-ID: References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.21 (X11/20090328) In-Reply-To: X-IsSubscribed: yes Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: 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 -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Lennart Borgman wrote: > I am trying to get "bash -i" to start up with $PATH having > > /usr/local/bin:/usr/bin:/bin > > at the beginning. I believe I need to do this without any init file > running so I set the windows Path variable to contain the > corresponding windows directories first. So I set Path in cmd.exe with > > set Path=c:\cygwin\bin;%Path% > set Path=c:\cygwin\usr\bin;%Path% > set Path=c:\cygwin\usr\local\bin;%Path% > > and then I do > > bash -i > > However $PATH starts with > > /usr/local/bin:/usr/bin:/usr/bin > > I thought the last dir above should be /bin, not /usr/bin. > > Is this intentional or is it a bug. If it is intentional can I somehow > do what I want another way? > In Cygwin, /bin and /usr/bin both always point to the same place, so it does get the effect you seem to want, just not in the way you expected. - -- ABCD -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.11 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iEYEARECAAYFAkotkKAACgkQOypDUo0oQOpQ6wCg20NQ1Yf/7/sW08Pxbp3NUgA6 3akAoMztsU4OQPr79EPJXo7c1or8kgc5 =Pqw2 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- 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/