From: Hoenicka AT pbmail DOT me DOT kp DOT dlr DOT de (=?iso-8859-1?Q?Dr=2E_Markus_H=F6nicka?=)
Subject: RE: cygwin b20 bash path usage?
11 Nov 1998 12:02:25 -0800
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To: "'William D Kirby'" <wdkirby AT ix DOT netcom DOT com>,
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>>Is this proper behavior in bash? I assumed the directory being worked
in
was searched first then along the PATH directory list.<<

I guess the latter is the native DOS/Windows search strategy. On Unix,
the PWD is not searched unless you include "." into your PATH, and AFAIK
cygwin behaves the same.
Markus
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