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 Subject: RE: How to execute bash file under /usr/bin despite setting PATH="/usr/local/bin:/usr/bin:/bin:/usr/X11R6/bin:$PATH" MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Date: Wed, 3 Dec 2003 10:50:02 +0100 content-class: urn:content-classes:message X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft Exchange V6.0.6249.0 Message-ID: X-MS-Has-Attach: X-MS-TNEF-Correlator: From: =?iso-8859-1?Q?J=F6rg_Schaible?= To: Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-MIME-Autoconverted: from quoted-printable to 8bit by delorie.com id hB39oJBe011273 Hello Huh-Dung, Nguyen, Huu-Dung wrote on Wednesday, December 03, 2003 10:43 AM: > Please help me to understand Cygwin because i am an unexperienced > user of CygWin > > I want to start some bash files or *.exe under /usr/bin so i > have set in my profile file ... > PATH="/usr/local/bin:/usr/bin:/bin:/usr/X11R6/bin:$PATH" ... > and put my bash files or *.exe under /usr/bin but i can not > start them from anywhere in the Cygwin session. > > Why and what can i do to start them from anywhere in the Cygwin > session ? as explained before /usr/bin is a mount point to /bin and therefroe nothing physically located in /usr/bin will be found. This behaviour for mount point is *normal* in any Unix. This mount point is standard for Cygwin as explained in the FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/faq_4.html#SEC61 Regards, Jörg -- 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/