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Subject: RE: Problem call a cygwin command from a dos batch file
Date: Tue, 29 Jul 2003 16:48:15 -0500
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From: "DePriest, Jason R." <jrdepriest AT ftb DOT com>
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My /etc/profile (the default one with cygwin) contains this:
export PATH="/usr/local/bin:/usr/bin:/bin:$PATH"
which implies that the behavior you are seeing is to be expected (if you
have the same /etc/profile).

See what happens when I add the '--logon' postfix to 'bash'.

Microsoft Windows 2000 [Version 5.00.2195]
(C) Copyright 1985-2000 Microsoft Corp.

C:\>cd cygwin

C:\cygwin>bash -c "echo $PATH"
'bash' is not recognized as an internal or external command,
operable program or batch file.

C:\cygwin>cd bin

C:\cygwin\bin>bash -c "echo $PATH"
/cygdrive/c/Perl/bin/:/cygdrive/c/Perl/bin/:/cygdrive/c/WINNT/system32:/
cygdrive/c/WINNT:/cygdrive/c/WINNT/System32/Wbem:/cygdrive/c/Program
Files/Microsoft SQL Server/80/Tools/BINN:/cygdrive/c/Program
Files/WinZip:/cygdrive/g/Tools/NmapWin/bin:/cygdrive/c
C:\cygwin\bin>bash --login -c "echo $PATH"
/usr/local/bin:/usr/bin:/bin:/cygdrive/c/Perl/bin/:/cygdrive/c/Perl/bin/
:/cygdrive/c/WINNT/system32:/cygdrive/c/WINNT:/cygdrive/c/WINNT/System32
/Wbem:/cygdrive/c/Program Files/Microsoft SQL
Server/80/Tools/BINN:/cygdrive/c/Program Files/WinZip:/cygdrive/g/
C:\cygwin\bin>


-----Original Message-----
From: Lisbeth Kellogg [mailto:lisbeth DOT kellogg AT apioutsourcing DOT com] 
Sent: Tuesday, July 29, 2003 4:40 PM
To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com
Subject: RE: Problem call a cygwin command from a dos batch file


Yes, that would fix it.  But I think we have a bug here.  In cygwin I
get:

$ echo $PATH
/usr/local/bin:/usr/bin:/bin:/cygdrive/c/WINNT/system32:/cygdrive/c/WINN
T:/cygdr
ive/c/WINNT/System32/Wbem:/cygdrive/c/Program Files/Microsoft SQL
Server/80/Tool
s/BINN:/cygdrive/c/PROGRA~1/ULTRAE~1:/usr/bin:/cygdrive/c/blat184:/cygdr
ive/c/AP
I360/Programs:/cygdrive/c/Program Files/Adobe/Acrobat
4.0/Distillr:/cygdrive/c/x
mlconvert:/cygdrive/c/Program Files/msxsl:/cygdrive/c/Program
Files/PKWARE:/cygd
rive/c/Program
Files/PKWARE/PKZIPC:/cygdrive/c/jdk1.3.1_02/bin:/cygdrive/c/TIFFl
Ib

In DOS I get:

C:\WINNT>bash -c "echo $PATH
/cygdrive/c/WINNT/system32:/cygdrive/c/WINNT:/cygdrive/c/WINNT/System32/
Wbem:/cy
gdrive/c/Program Files/Microsoft SQL
Server/80/Tools/BINN:/cygdrive/c/PROGRA~1/U
LTRAE~1:/usr/bin:/cygdrive/c/blat184:/cygdrive/c/API360/Programs:/cygdri
ve/c/Pro
gram Files/Adobe/Acrobat
4.0/Distillr:/cygdrive/c/xmlconvert:/cygdrive/c/Program
 Files/msxsl:/cygdrive/c/Program Files/PKWARE:/cygdrive/c/Program
Files/PKWARE/P
KZIPC:/cygdrive/c/jdk1.3.1_02/bin:/cygdrive/c/TIFFlib

They shouldn't be different.

---
Lisbeth Kellogg
Office: 651-675-2610
 

-----Original Message-----
From: Elfyn McBratney [mailto:elfyn AT emcb DOT co DOT uk] 
Sent: Tuesday, July 29, 2003 4:33 PM
To: Lisbeth Kellogg
Cc: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com
Subject: RE: Problem call a cygwin command from a dos batch file


On Tue, 29 Jul 2003, Lisbeth Kellogg wrote:

> I guess I found the answer to my own question.  Since some other 
> people have had this same problem, here is the solution.
> 
> There is a problem with the PATH environment under Win 2000.  To 
> identify the problem I typed the following in DOS:
> 
>      bash -c "which sort"
> 
> I got a response of "/cygdrive/c/WINNT/system32/sort" instead of 
> "/usr/bin/sort".  This is the DOS sort command, not the cygwin sort 
> command.  I just had to change my command to:
> 
>      bash -c "c:/cygwin/bin/sort -t \| -k 3 -k 11 -k 12 -o 
> sortedfile.txt unsortedfile.txt"
> 
> This could be a problem any time the DOS and cygwin commands have the 
> same name.

Like find, rexec, ... Having 'C:\Cygwin\bin' at the front of your PATH 
environment variable would have solved this.

Elfyn

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