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 09:28:03 -0400 (EDT) From: Igor Pechtchanski Reply-To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com To: fergus AT bonhard DOT uklinux DOT net cc: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Subject: Re: Adding cygwin/bin to dos path In-Reply-To: <000701c3736f$9f09f5a0$dd7a2852@leper> Message-ID: References: <000701c3736f$9f09f5a0$dd7a2852 AT leper> Importance: Normal MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII 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 -- 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/