Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help AT cygwin DOT com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner AT cygwin DOT com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin AT cygwin DOT com X-Authentication-Warning: slinky.cs.nyu.edu: pechtcha owned process doing -bs Date: Fri, 5 Sep 2003 09:23:39 -0400 (EDT) From: Igor Pechtchanski Reply-To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com To: Brock Filer cc: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Subject: Re: Adding cygwin/bin to dos path In-Reply-To: <20030905040317.1865.qmail@web12404.mail.yahoo.com> Message-ID: References: <20030905040317 DOT 1865 DOT qmail AT web12404 DOT mail DOT yahoo DOT com> Importance: Normal MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII On Thu, 4 Sep 2003, Brock Filer wrote: > I installed Cygwin a couple hours ago and I added the > bin directory to my autoexec.bat path setting. Put it > at the end so that the UNIX commands wouldn't override > MS commands with the same name. > Mostly I did this so I can call a bash script from a > java program without a lot of OS sniffing. > My question is, was this a foolish and stupid thing to do? Not at all. In fact, that's the way I have it set up - it causes minimal disruption in the existing batch files and commands. Unless you have MKS earlier in the path, you should be able to simply call 'bash -c "Any Cygwin Command"' anyway. However, you won't be able to call bash scripts directly. You'll need to invoke bash and let it start the script (even if it's not a bash script -- bash will honor the #! magic). This should work on other systems as well, so the code will be portable. Igor -- http://cs.nyu.edu/~pechtcha/ |\ _,,,---,,_ pechtcha AT cs DOT nyu DOT edu ZZZzz /,`.-'`' -. ;-;;,_ igor AT watson DOT ibm DOT com |,4- ) )-,_. ,\ ( `'-' Igor Pechtchanski, Ph.D. '---''(_/--' `-'\_) fL a.k.a JaguaR-R-R-r-r-r-.-.-. Meow! "I have since come to realize that being between your mentor and his route to the bathroom is a major career booster." -- Patrick Naughton -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/