Greetings, Federico Kircheis! > Hello to everyone,
> I've noticed that env seems to handle the environment variable PATH in a > particular way > ----- >> cd /d; >> env -i PATH='C:\Windows;C:\Windows\system32;' >> /c/Windows/System32/WindowsPowerShell/v1.0/powershell.exe > # in the powershell instance > echo $env:PATH > C;D:\Windows;C;D:\Windows\system32; > ---- Fully expected behavior. `env` expects POSIX semantics and parsed your command according to that. The results are, as I said, expected, although not by you. > From this and other examples it seems that env uses for PATH as > separator, then preprends the current drive to all paths that begin with '\' > (thus all of them), and ";" is treated as part of the path Exactly. > I would like to use the PATH as-is in the invoked program, just like it is > done for other variables, for example > ---- > cd /d > env -i OPATH='C:\Windows;C:\Windows\system32;' > /c/Windows/System32/WindowsPowerShell/v1.0/powershell.exe > # in the powershell instance > echo $env:OPATH > C:\Windows;C:\Windows\system32; > ---- > in this case OPATH is forwarded as-is to powershell.exe. > I understand that PATH is special, that for cygwin processes some > transformation might be necessary. It is, but in a way you suppose. > But is there any way to achieve what I'm trying? Yes. Pass the POSIX paths in $PATH, they will be converted to Windows ones when invoking a Windows process. Also, I strongly suggest using /proc/cygdrive/ tree in such case, especially when you make scripts for somebody else. > I search if there is maybe a separation option for telling env to use PATH > as-is, but could not find none. There's no need or reason to do it. In your case, what you wanted to achieve could be written as >> env -i "PATH=$(cygpath -UW):$(cygpath -US):$PATH" pwsh (The "%SystemRoot%" is NOT NECESSARILY 'C:\Windows', though you CAN use "%SystemRoot%\System32" with confidence, once you acquired the former.) (Also, why the *** you are using v1.0? Get v7 already, save yourself the tragedy.) -- With best regards, Andrey Repin Saturday, January 4, 2025 04:28:52 Sorry for my terrible english... -- 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
