Hi Robert, On Thu, Feb 6, 2014 at 10:01 AM, Robert Klemme wrote: > 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:
Windows always looks into the current directory when searching for programs, so '.' is usually not in the Winows version of PATH (which Cygwin imports). Almost certainly, the dot was put into the PATH by one of the Bash initialization files. Here are some off the top of my head (`info bash` , 6.2 Bash startup files, has the complete list). /etc/profile /etc/bash.bashrc ~/.bash_profile ~/.profile ~/.bashrc You can try running bash -x --login This will spew the shell commands being executed while interpreting the startup scripts (make sure you have a large scroll-back buffer :) Alternatively bash -x --login > bash_init.txt 2>&1 then type 'exit' blindly into the terminal (maybe 'tee' would work better but I don't have access to Cygwin right now). If you saved to a file, you can grep for PATH and try to identify which initialization file put the dot in. HTH, Csaba -- GCS a+ e++ d- C++ ULS$ L+$ !E- W++ P+++$ w++$ tv+ b++ DI D++ 5++ The Tao of math: The numbers you can count are not the real numbers. Life is complex, with real and imaginary parts. "Ok, it boots. Which means it must be bug-free and perfect. " -- Linus Torvalds "People disagree with me. I just ignore them." -- Linus Torvalds -- 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
