Hi, in cygwin64 on Win 7 64 bit I find "." in $PATH:
$ echo "$PATH" | tr : \\n | egrep '^\.$' . However, I was not able to detect where this came from. It's neither in the Windows system environment variables nor in the user environment variables - as you can also see on a cmd prompt: C:\Users\rklemme>path | find ";." C:\Users\rklemme>path | find ".;" C:\Users\rklemme> There is nothing in rc files (you only see my workaround to remove it which is commented ATM): $ egrep -n '\..*PATH|PATH.*\.' .bash_profile .profile .bashrc .bash_aliases /etc/profile /etc/bash* .bash_profile:31:# remove "." from PATH .bash_profile:32:# PATH=$(echo "$PATH" | sed -re 's#^:*\.:+##;s#:+\.:*$##;s#:+\.:+##g') /etc/bash_completion:1092:# - stdout: Filename of command in PATH with possible symbolic links resolved. /etc/bash_completion:1372:# completes on directories under those specified in CDPATH. /etc/bash_completion:1389: if [[ -z "${CDPATH:-}" || "$cur" == ?(.)?(.)/* ]]; then egrep: /etc/bash_completion.d: Is a directory Do you have any idea where this might originate? I'd rather fix the root cause than keep my workaround. Kind regards robert -- remember.guy do |as, often| as.you_can - without end http://blog.rubybestpractices.com/ -- 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