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From: Peter Bauer <peter.m.bauer@gmail.com>
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Date: Wed, 11 Apr 2018 15:43:47 +0200
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On 04/05/2018 08:47 PM, Achim Gratz wrote:
> Andrey Repin writes:
>> P.P.S.
>> Partial solution could be a wrapper that reduce PATH length by dropping
>> nonessential/duplicate/Win-specific paths before invoking Cygwin terminal.
>> I have such a wrapper for my own reasons.
> You don't need one if your login shell is a POSIX shell and you don't
> use Windows applications if you have set a system or user variable
> CYGWIN_NOWINPATH to a non-empty value.  For tcsh I have patched
> /etc/csh.login to do the moral equivalent; I guess that should be
> packaged with tcsh eventually.
>
> It's usually way easier to add to a clean path than removing cruft and I
> generally lean into the direction of using wrapper scripts for Windows
> applications that I need to use from Cygwin since quite often some other
> things need attention aside from PATH.
>

i went for this solution as the default PATH after opening a Cygwin 
terminal was already ~2000 characters long.

thx a lot,
Peter

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