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Gary Johnson wrote:
> On 2009-12-01, ??????????????? wrote:
> 
>>> $PATH returns the value of PATH. For example, to display the path, use "echo
>>> $PATH".
>>> This is not Cygwin-specific though so further discussion is likely to be
>>> off-topic for this list.
> 
>> What i mean is that, how to only get the env path of windows, such as,
>> `C:\WINDOWS\system32;C:\WINDOWS;C:\WINDOWS\System32\Wbem".
>>
>> `echo $PATH' would display the path of cygwin:
>> echo $PATH
>> /usr/local/bin:/usr/bin:/bin:/usr/X11R6/bin:/usr/local/sbin:/usr/sbin:/sbin
> 
>     cygpath -w -p "$PATH"
> 

Just to clarify since there seems to be a little confusion concerning
what the OP needs.  Gary's suggestion will convert the value of the PATH
environment variable as the shell used to run cygpath sees it to a value
which is acceptable by Windows-native applications.  That means that
you'll likely have the additional elements as prepended by /etc/profile
in the result.

If you want to see the Windows PATH setting unmolested by Cygwin, you
will either need to strip out the additions set by /etc/profile or avoid
running under an environment modified by /etc/profile.

-Jeremy

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