Hi,
a current problem when invoking cygwin is: if the Windows PATH
variable has quoted paths then cygwin won't translate those paths to
POSIX properly, so you end up with an incomplete $PATH:
T:\bin>echo %PATH%
"C:\Program Files\abc";[...]
T:\bin>sh
$ echo $PATH
"C:/Program Files/abc":[...]
No command is found in this directory. So I wrote this script:
(It just parses $PATH and translates every path between quotes
to POSIX and removes the quotes)
[begin parse_pathvar.sh]
TEST=`echo "$PATH" | sed "s/\\\\\\\\/\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\/g"`
SHELLFILE="//t/bin/parse_pathvar_out.sh"
rm "$SHELLFILE"
awk -v mypath="$TEST" -v shellfile="$SHELLFILE" '
BEGIN {
if (index(mypath,"\"") > 0) {
print "PATH=" > shellfile;
parts=split(mypath,patharray,"\"");
fixit=0;
for (i=1; i<=parts; i+=1) {
if (length(patharray[i]) > 0) {
if (fixit == 1) {
print "PATH=\"$PATH\"`cygpath -u \"" patharray[i] "\"`" >>
shellfile;
}
else {
print "PATH=\"$PATH\"\"" patharray[i] "\"" >> shellfile;
}
}
if (fixit == 1) {
fixit=0;
} else {
fixit=1;
}
}
}
}
'
[end parse_pathvar.sh]
(I know, its ugly (: )
I include it in my profile like this:
# PATH handling. Quotes removing
/t/bin/parse_pathvar.sh
[ -f /t/bin/parse_pathvar_out.sh ] && source /t/bin/parse_pathvar_out.sh
So when I start a login bash everything is nice:
T:\src>bash --login
[/t/src] $ echo $PATH
/usr/local/bin:/usr/bin:/bin:/c/Program Files/abc:[...]
My remaining problem:
We launch a lot of scripts from the DOS Box, like 'sh script.sh'.
This doesn't invoke the profile. How can I launch this path-parser-script
every time a bash or ash gets started?
(Sorry if the question is a little off-topic, but the above script might
be useful to cygnus people. Customize the paths though)
bye,
harry
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