-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Lennart Borgman wrote: > I am trying to get "bash -i" to start up with $PATH having > > /usr/local/bin:/usr/bin:/bin > > at the beginning. I believe I need to do this without any init file > running so I set the windows Path variable to contain the > corresponding windows directories first. So I set Path in cmd.exe with > > set Path=c:\cygwin\bin;%Path% > set Path=c:\cygwin\usr\bin;%Path% > set Path=c:\cygwin\usr\local\bin;%Path% > > and then I do > > bash -i > > However $PATH starts with > > /usr/local/bin:/usr/bin:/usr/bin > > I thought the last dir above should be /bin, not /usr/bin. > > Is this intentional or is it a bug. If it is intentional can I somehow > do what I want another way? >
In Cygwin, /bin and /usr/bin both always point to the same place, so it does get the effect you seem to want, just not in the way you expected. - -- ABCD -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.11 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iEYEARECAAYFAkotkKAACgkQOypDUo0oQOpQ6wCg20NQ1Yf/7/sW08Pxbp3NUgA6 3akAoMztsU4OQPr79EPJXo7c1or8kgc5 =Pqw2 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- 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/
