X-Recipient: archive-cygwin AT delorie DOT com X-Original-To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Delivered-To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com DMARC-Filter: OpenDMARC Filter v1.3.2 sourceware.org 56229385E00B Authentication-Results: sourceware.org; dmarc=none (p=none dis=none) header.from=cs.umass.edu Authentication-Results: sourceware.org; spf=pass smtp.mailfrom=moss AT cs DOT umass DOT edu Subject: Re: dash vs. bash inconsistency To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com References: <17459431 DOT 114768 DOT 1585357770671 DOT ref AT mail DOT yahoo DOT com> <17459431 DOT 114768 DOT 1585357770671 AT mail DOT yahoo DOT com> From: Eliot Moss Message-ID: <2bb9e62f-33d5-bcc7-b38f-ae22ea767847@cs.umass.edu> Date: Fri, 27 Mar 2020 21:44:01 -0400 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64; rv:68.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/68.6.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <17459431.114768.1585357770671@mail.yahoo.com> Content-Language: en-US X-Spam-Status: No, score=-5.7 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00, JMQ_SPF_NEUTRAL, KAM_DMARC_STATUS, SPF_HELO_NONE, SPF_PASS, TXREP autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.2 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.2 (2018-09-13) on server2.sourceware.org X-BeenThere: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.29 Precedence: list List-Id: General Cygwin discussions and problem reports List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Reply-To: moss AT cs DOT umass DOT edu Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; Format="flowed" Errors-To: cygwin-bounces AT cygwin DOT com Sender: "Cygwin" On 3/27/2020 9:09 PM, Sasha Slijepcevic via Cygwin wrote: > I am using Cygwin 3.1.4-1, bash 4.4.12-3 and dash 0.5.9.1-1. > > I have a setup.exe in the root of my Cygwin installation, C:\cygwin64, for example. > If I set PATH=C:\cygwin64;C:\cygwin64\bin, I can run setup.exe from bash. > > C:\>set PATH=C:\cygwin64;C:\cygwin64\bin > > C:\>bash > $ echo $PATH > /:/usr/bin > $ setup-x86_64.exe --version > Cygwin setup 2.903 > > However, in dash: > C:\>dash > $ echo $PATH > /:/usr/bin > $ setup-x86-64.exe --version > dash: 2: setup-x86-64.exe: not found > > Am I misusing Cygwin trying to run executables from the top of the installation? Is it expected to all shells would behave the same? Did you happen to notice that in the second case you misspelled the name of the executable, using a - instead of an _ ? Best - Eliot -- Problem reports: https://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: https://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: https://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: https://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple