X-Recipient: archive-cygwin@delorie.com X-SWARE-Spam-Status: No, hits=-2.9 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00,FREEMAIL_FROM,KHOP_THREADED,MSGID_FROM_MTA_HEADER,RCVD_IN_DNSWL_NONE,RCVD_IN_HOSTKARMA_YE X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Message-ID: Date: Wed, 25 Jul 2012 04:24:56 +0200 From: Aaron Schneider User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; rv:14.0) Gecko/20120713 Thunderbird/14.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: Cygwin fresh install imports Windows PATH which includes spaces causing errors References: <20120724155038.GD5572@ednor.casa.cgf.cx> <20120724160827.GA6098@ednor.casa.cgf.cx> In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset="ISO-8859-1"; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-IsSubscribed: yes Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm List-Id: 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 On 25/07/2012 3:59, Andrew DeFaria wrote: > > Maybe when in Cygwin, /bin and /usr/bin should be put in your PATH ahead > of the Windows stuff. I know I've run with C:\Cygwin\bin in the front of > my Windows System Environment PATH variable for years without issue > (though I think some around here might say it's not a good idea). > They are already in front, but if the command is not there it just searches for the next up to the last, and if no match even so, says command not found. -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple