X-Recipient: archive-cygwin AT delorie DOT com X-SWARE-Spam-Status: No, hits=-2.9 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00,FREEMAIL_FROM,KHOP_THREADED,MSGID_FROM_MTA_HEADER,RCVD_IN_DNSWL_NONE,RCVD_IN_HOSTKARMA_YE X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Message-ID: Date: Wed, 25 Jul 2012 04:24:56 +0200 From: Aaron Schneider User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; rv:14.0) Gecko/20120713 Thunderbird/14.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Subject: Re: Cygwin fresh install imports Windows PATH which includes spaces causing errors References: <20120724155038 DOT GD5572 AT ednor DOT casa DOT cgf DOT cx> <20120724160827 DOT GA6098 AT ednor DOT casa DOT cgf DOT cx> In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset="ISO-8859-1"; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-IsSubscribed: yes Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help AT cygwin DOT com; run by ezmlm List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner AT cygwin DOT com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin AT cygwin DOT com On 25/07/2012 3:59, Andrew DeFaria wrote: > > Maybe when in Cygwin, /bin and /usr/bin should be put in your PATH ahead > of the Windows stuff. I know I've run with C:\Cygwin\bin in the front of > my Windows System Environment PATH variable for years without issue > (though I think some around here might say it's not a good idea). > They are already in front, but if the command is not there it just searches for the next up to the last, and if no match even so, says command not found. -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple