On 3/23/2017 3:10 PM, Tanya Sandoval wrote: > I recently had to reinstall Cygwin and in doing so, I have ran into a > problem with some application because Cygwin seems to be appended to > my PATH environment variable. I have tried to remove this by following > these instructions https://www.java.com/en/download/help/path.xml but > something strange happens. If I look at the value of Path under > 'Environment Variables', Cygwin is not there; however if I type PATH > in cmd.exe, I see Cygwin gets appended at the end of the PATH. Can you > please help me to know to remove Cygwin from the PATH?
If you mean PATH in a terminal, then you, or the terminal program (mintty perhaps) are running a shell (bash). If you did not mean in a terminal, then also look at the user's environment vars (there are 2 sets: global, and local). The shell, depending on the parameters which it was invoked with, usually runs one of its configuration files (bash runs either .bashrc, or .bash_profile, also /etc/profile), which usually is what sets the environment you see inside the terminal+shell. You can direct the shell not to read config files (bash --noprofile --norc), or change all the possible config files, which is much more involved, and affect every invocation of the shell... which is not what you probably want. Hope this helps. -- R. Berber -- 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
