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On 2/20/2014 8:34 AM, Nellis, Kenneth wrote:
> From: Todd Poole
>> Hi all
>> Really new to Cygwin. Is there a way to setup Cygwin so when I got to
>> terminal to type a command I don't have to enter the complete path as
>> shown here:
>>
>> $ cd /cygdrive/c/directory name
>>
>> Anyway to setup to where I might just enter
>>
>> $ c/directory name
>>
>> or something like it?
>
> I suggest you look into the CDPATH environment variable.

That would simplify what you type as an argument to the cd command.

If you are wanting to be able to invoke a command foo without typing
its whole path, then you need its directory in the PATH variable.
PATH in cygwin is similar to PATH on Windows, but the format is
more like Unix: / instead of \, : instead of ;, and so on.  The
command:

echo $PATH

will show you the default.  You can add a directory to be searched
after the default ones by doing something like:

PATH="${PATH}:additional-directory"

The quotes are important if anything in PATH has spaces or other "strange"
characters.

By the way, this is standard Unix / bash stuff.  cygwin kind of assumes that you
are familiar with Unix, since its purpose is to offer a Unix-like environment
on Windows.  (bash, the Bourne-again shell, is the default shell brought up in
a cygwin terminal window.)

Best wishes -- Eliot Moss

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