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From: ericblake AT comcast DOT net (Eric Blake)
To: Reid Thompson <Reid DOT Thompson AT ateb DOT com>,
   Ross MacGillivray <ross_macgillivray AT yahoo DOT ca>, cygwin AT cygwin DOT com
Subject: RE:  Path Statement Not Being Evaluated by Bash in Cygwin
Date: Tue, 05 Jul 2005 20:34:20 +0000
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> > when I start bash and enter 'echo $path'.  This is the path statement
> > returned. 
> 
> Not sure how you've got things setup, but `echo $path`  should result in
> an empty return statement.  the variable is PATH not path, case
> sensitive.  
> 

Or maybe you are thinking of  tcsh syntax, where $path is a
space-separated synonym for the colon-separated $PATH.  tcsh
syntax doesn't work in bash (hopefully, it is obvious why not),
and your listing had colons, so even if you were to use tcsh with
that $path you would have problems.

--
Eric Blake
cygwin bash maintainer



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