From: mmorche AT sat1 DOT de (Matthias Morche) Subject: Re: "command not found" 23 Jan 1999 06:16:11 -0800 Message-ID: <36A99DA4.F6FA751F.cygnus.gnu-win32@sat1.de> References: <0B12E65D1FEBCF11B65C00A02461DF13041FE10B AT edsitp_exch1 DOT itp DOT eds DOT com> Reply-To: gnu-win32 AT cygnus DOT com Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: gnu-win32 AT cygnus DOT com "Buck, Peter INS" wrote: > > All right, I confess, I fooled with the CygWin B20 shortcut. Things were > working fine before I did that. Now, however, when I start Cygwin and type > in things such as chdir or mkdir, I get (for example) > > bash: mkdir: command not found. .... > I took out the "echo off" in the bat file and verified that the path is > getting set. But to a wrong value, I bet mkdir.exe can't be seen within Your PATH... > If I type in "help" I get a page of help, all the local commands. They > work. Sure they do, they're built into bash and do NOT NEED a correct PATH. Probably the PATH to the mkdir.exe is mangled (mount point did not survive reinstallation, symlink gone, reinstalled to another location, without changing $PATH to the new location...). -- Matthias Morche (mailto:morche AT sat1 DOT de) SAT.1 (http://www.sat1.de) >>> Linux: the greatest adventure game since the invention of the PC <<< - For help on using this list (especially unsubscribing), send a message to "gnu-win32-request AT cygnus DOT com" with one line of text: "help".