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From: Jason Curl <j DOT m DOT curl AT optusnet DOT com DOT au>
Subject: Re: PATH and SystemRoot oddity
Date: Fri, 26 Nov 2004 22:10:29 +0100
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Igor Pechtchanski wrote:
> On Fri, 26 Nov 2004, Jason Curl wrote:
> 
> 
>>I have a similar question: I had to modify 'profile' to change
>>  $PATH=xxxx:$PATH
>>to
>>  $PATH=xxxx
>>
>>How can I simply add $SYSTEMROOT:$SYSTEMROOT/system32 to this? It
>>doesn't work as-is because $SYSTEMROOT = C:\Windows (and this is
>>therefore not interpreted by the path). Rephrasing, what do I use to
>>translate "C:\WINDOWS" to "/cygdrive/c/windows"?
>>
>>I had to do this because some nasty things in my path were causing
> 
> 
> First off, you could have actually removed the offending entries from the
> PATH using something like
> 
> OFFENDING_ENTRY="/cygdrive/c/ClearCase/bin"
> PATH="`echo "$PATH" | sed "s#:$OFFENDING_ENTRY##"`"
> 
> Alternatively, if you want to translate any Win32 path to a Cygwin (POSIX)
> path, use the "cygpath" utility, like this:
> 
> PATH=${PATH}:"`cygpath -u "$SYSTEMROOT/system32"`"
> 
> HTH,
> 	Igor
> P.S. FWIW, the question is not that similar, and you should probably have
> started a new thread with it.

Sorry - next time it will be a new thread. OTOH, this is exactly the 
solution I didn't know how to implement. Spasibo Bolshoi!


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