Re: bash adds dot to $PATH (was: Re: $PATH contains dot but unclear where it comes from)

Greetings, Robert Klemme! > C:\Users\rklemme>C:\cygwin64\bin\bash.exe -i -x -c exit >bash-log.txt 2>&1 > First line that contains PATH looks like this: > ++ PATH='/cygdrive/c/PROGRAM FILES (X86)/NVIDIA > CORPORATION/PHYSX/COMMON:/cygdrive/c/PROGRAM FILES (X86)/INTEL/ICLS > CLIENT:/cygdrive/c/PRO

Re: bash adds dot to $PATH

On Tue, Mar 25, 2014 at 3:14 AM, Linda Walsh wrote: > Robert Klemme wrote: > So it could be an OS "feature" but I could not find any >> >> documentation about this. And it is still totally unclear to me what >> the criterion might be as bash suffers from this but all other shells >> do not. This

Re: bash adds dot to $PATH (was: Re: $PATH contains dot but unclear where it comes from)

On 3/6/2014 05:29, Robert Klemme wrote: The phenomenon persists, for these executions: c:\cygwin64\bin\bash.exe --norc --noprofile -i c:\cygwin64\bin\bash.exe --norc --noprofile c:\cygwin64\bin\bash.exe -i -l Actually I could not find a commandline with bash that did not lead to the dot appended

Re: bash adds dot to $PATH

Robert Klemme wrote: So it could be an OS "feature" but I could not find any documentation about this. And it is still totally unclear to me what the criterion might be as bash suffers from this but all other shells do not. This is weird. I don't think BASH sets the path... it adds to the

Re: bash adds dot to $PATH (was: Re: $PATH contains dot but unclear where it comes from)

Hi, Matthew Blakley pointed out to me that he noticed that under Windows 7 several processes have the dot added - not only Cygwin processes. I checked with ProcessExplorer and indeed PATH of chrome.exe ends with ";.;". So it could be an OS "feature" but I could not find any documentation about th

Re: bash adds dot to $PATH (was: Re: $PATH contains dot but unclear where it comes from)

If it is of any use, the versions I have installed, bash/sh 4.1.10(4), have the same length and differ in two byte positions, by one bit in each case. These differences may just reflect the different name or a slightly different time at which the .exe was constructed as part of a build process.

bash adds dot to $PATH (was: Re: $PATH contains dot but unclear where it comes from)

Folks, sorry for the delay, I was sick in the meantime. Now, I try to summarize all my finding in the hopes that bash package maintainer can pick up from here. When starting a terminal on my Windows 7 64 bit system $PATH contains a dot at the end. The dot is not present in my Windows environment