Thomas, you are right, it is rather an issue with bash: when does not see a slash in the command name, it starts path searching, and of course finds nothing. Looks like a bug.
$ "$WINDIR\system32\cmd.exe" /c echo ok bash: C:\WINDOWS\system32\cmd.exe: command not found $ "$WINDIR/system32\cmd.exe" /c echo ok ok -- Ilya -- 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