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Subject: Re: Bash v4.0 does not respect $PATH
From: Csaba Raduly <rcsaba AT gmail DOT com>
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On Tue, Dec 29, 2009 at 11:21 PM,  Neil Mowbray wrote:
> Folks,
>
> I need associative arrays so I got the bash 4.0 source, compiled it under
> cygwin and installed it in /usr/local/bin.
>
> I have ActiveState perl installed in /opt/perl which preceeds
> /usr/local/bin:/bin:/usr/bin
> on my path. =A0Using bash 4.0, 'which' says I should get ActiveState perl=
, but
> actual execution gives cygwin perl in /bin

Are you sure PATH is the same in bash 3 and 4? You only showed the
PATH from bash 4.
Just out of curiosity, what does

perl -e 'print $^X'

print in those two situations? Also, try running

for i in $(echo $PATH | sed -r -e "s/:/ /g"); do ls -l $i/perl; done

in both shells.


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