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Date: Fri, 26 Nov 2004 16:39:38 -0500 (EST)
From: Igor Pechtchanski <pechtcha AT cs DOT nyu DOT edu>
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To: Jason Curl <j DOT m DOT curl AT optusnet DOT com DOT au>
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Subject: Re: PATH and SystemRoot oddity
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On Fri, 26 Nov 2004, Jason Curl wrote:

> 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.

Glad it helped.  Out of curiousity, which one of the two solutions above
did you mean?

> Spasibo Bolshoi!

Na zdorovie.
	Igor
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