Subject: Re: Bash v4.0 does not respect $PATH
From: Csaba Raduly <[email-masked]>
To: [email-masked]
Cc: [email-masked]
Date: Thu, 31 Dec 2009 13:34:23 +0200
List-Id: <cygwin.cygwin.com>

On Wed, Dec 30, 2009 at 3:47 PM,  Neil.Mowbray wrote:

http://www.cygwin.com/acronyms/#TOFU
Please don't do that.

> Sorry I missing the last question.  To answer it: yes perl really is visible
> as /opt/perl/bin/perl which bash fails to execute it as the third line
> below shows.  In this shell bash execute cygwin perl on line 5.
>
> ls: cannot access /opt/site/bin/perl: No such file or directory
> ls: cannot access /opt/ms-vs-10.0/VC/bin/perl: No such file or directory
> -rwx------+ 1 SYSTEM SYSTEM 45137 2009-08-25 05:49 /opt/perl/bin/perl
> ls: cannot access /usr/local/bin/perl: No such file or directory
> -rwxr-xr-x 2 neilmowbray Administrators 34883 2009-12-20 00:20 /bin/perl
> -rwxr-xr-x 2 neilmowbray Administrators 34883 2009-12-20 00:20 /usr/bin/perl
>
>
> -----Original Message-----

> From: Csaba Raduly
> Sent: 30 December 2009 08:52
> Also, try running
>
> for i in $(echo $PATH | sed -r -e "s/:/ /g"); do ls -l $i/perl; done

-rwx------+ 1 SYSTEM SYSTEM 45137 2009-08-25 05:49 /opt/perl/bin/perl

I think the problem is that only SYSTEM can run /opt/perl/bin/perl
You may need to      chmod a+x /opt/perl/bin/perl
or     chown neilmowbray /opt/perl/bin/perl

Hope this helps,
Csaba
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