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Date: Fri, 5 Sep 2003 09:28:03 -0400 (EDT)
From: Igor Pechtchanski <pechtcha AT cs DOT nyu DOT edu>
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To: fergus AT bonhard DOT uklinux DOT net
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Subject: Re: Adding cygwin/bin to dos path
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On Fri, 5 Sep 2003 Fergus wrote:

> > Put it at the end so that the UNIX commands
> > wouldn't override MS commands with the same
> > name.
>
> > My question is, was this a foolish and stupid thing
> > to do?
>
> In my opinion: putting it in the PATH is a wise and sensible thing to do,
> giving you access to all this excellent stuff. But (my recommendation would
> be - others may differ): put it before the Windows command pathnames. There
> are very few clashes (find, sort, a couple of others I think) and the Cygwin
> interpretations are incomparably "better" (more useful, versatile,
> informative, helpful).

...and break existing batch files, which expect Windows commands instead.
If you want Cygwin's find, just run "bash -c find".  Ditto for "sort",
etc.  IMO, of course.
	Igor
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