Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help AT sourceware DOT cygnus DOT com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner AT sources DOT redhat DOT com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin AT sources DOT redhat DOT com From: Dario Alcocer MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: <15281.55073.738490.279479@coyote.priv.helixdigital.com> Date: Wed, 26 Sep 2001 06:24:49 -0700 To: gp AT familiehaase DOT de Cc: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Subject: Re: export doesn't like my path :-( In-Reply-To: <3BB19379.26067.503CA34B@localhost> References: <000001c1462d$8fb9b6b0$e4525c41 AT beak DOT com> <3BB19379 DOT 26067 DOT 503CA34B AT localhost> X-Mailer: VM 6.76 under 21.1 (patch 12) "Channel Islands" XEmacs Lucid >>>>> "Gerrit" == Gerrit P Haase writes: Gerrit> You have spaces in some of the paths. >> drive/c/Program Files/MT S:/cygdrive/e/Library/Amzi Logic >> Explorer/amzi_logic_explorer/bin: Gerrit> ^^^^ ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ Gerrit> That _is_ a problem for bash. FYI, spaces in PATH are OK for bash (tested with bash-2.05-8): dario AT mypc ~ $ ls /cygdrive/c/Program\ Files/Accessories/WORDPAD.EXE /cygdrive/c/Program Files/Accessories/WORDPAD.EXE dario AT mypc ~ $ echo $PATH /usr/local/bin:/usr/bin:/bin:/cygdrive/c/WINDOWS:/cygdrive/c/WINDOWS/COMMAND e dario AT mypc ~ $ wordpad BASH: wordpad: command not found dario AT mypc ~ $ PATH=/cygdrive/c/Program\ Files/Accessories:$PATH dario AT mypc ~ $ echo $PATH /cygdrive/c/Program Files/Accessories:/usr/local/bin:/usr/bin:/bin:/cygdrive/c/W INDOWS:/cygdrive/c/WINDOWS/COMMAND dario AT mypc ~ $ wordpad dario AT mypc ~ $ -- Dario Alcocer -- Sr. Software Developer, Helix Digital Inc. alcocer AT helixdigital DOT com -- http://www.helixdigital.com -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Bug reporting: http://cygwin.com/bugs.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/