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Subject: Re: $PATH contains dot but unclear where it comes from
From: Robert Klemme <shortcutter@googlemail.com>
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On Wed, Feb 19, 2014 at 6:23 PM, Larry Hall (Cygwin)
 wrote:
> On 2/19/2014 12:16 PM, Robert Klemme wrote:

>> The dot is already in the variable before bash even modifies it.
>
> So that means you need to look in your Windows environment to understand
> where this comes from.

I did look in windows environment as well (again, see earlier emails).

>  Don't discount any start-up batch files
> (i.e. cygwin.bat), etc., that you may be using to kick-start bash
> either.

I am using the regular mintty start that cygwin establishes.  This is
the command line
C:\cygwin64\bin\mintty.exe -i /Cygwin-Terminal.ico -

I can't see in documentation that mintty manipulates the environment
in some way.

More ideas?

robert


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