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Date: Tue, 5 Oct 2004 17:51:17 +1000 (EST)
From: luke DOT kendall AT cisra DOT canon DOT com DOT au
Subject: Re: Shell script ignores $PATH?!
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On  5 Oct, To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com wrote:
>  Unfortunately, despite setting PATH to use only a network-installed 
>  Cygwin (and not include /bin, /usr/bin etc.), the shell script still 
>  somehow decides to invoke /usr/bin/sh. 

I have two more pieces of info: the shell is started by using
/usr/bin/sh if the script is simply invoked directly from bash by
typing its full pathname.

If I start it either via bash or sh, it runs using whatever bash or sh
is found from PATH.

So my guess is that when a script with no #!/path line is run, then the
default is to run /usr/bin/sh to start it, and the PATH simply doesn't
come into it.

luke


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