> Put it at the end so that the UNIX commands > wouldn't override MS commands with the same > name.
> My question is, was this a foolish and stupid thing > to do? In my opinion: putting it in the PATH is a wise and sensible thing to do, giving you access to all this excellent stuff. But (my recommendation would be - others may differ): put it before the Windows command pathnames. There are very few clashes (find, sort, a couple of others I think) and the Cygwin interpretations are incomparably "better" (more useful, versatile, informative, helpful). Fergus -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/