Re: how to get the windows PATH env in cygwin

2009-12-03 Thread kiorky
mak...@apem3 ~ $ echo $PATH /cygdrive/e/minitage2/bin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/bin:/bin:/usr/X11R6/bin:/cygdrive/e/Subversion/bin:/cygdrive/e/OpenLDAP/CD SSilver/:/cygdrive/c/WINDOWS/system32:/cygdrive/c/WINDOWS:/cygdrive/c/WINDOWS/System32/Wbem:/cygdrive/c/WINDOWS/system32 /WindowsPowerShell/v1.0:/cygd

Re: how to get the windows PATH env in cygwin

2009-12-01 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Wed, Dec 02, 2009 at 12:28:31AM +0100, Reinier Post wrote: >>Windows programs will only ever see a Windows-style PATH no matter >>what; however, they WILL see the Cygwin paths converted to >>Windows-style and prepended IF they were run from a login shell under >>Cygwin. > >Yes, that's how I'm ge

Re: how to get the windows PATH env in cygwin

2009-12-01 Thread Reinier Post
> Windows programs will only ever see a Windows-style PATH no matter what; > however, they WILL see the Cygwin paths converted to Windows-style and > prepended IF they were run from a login shell under Cygwin. Yes, that's how I'm getting these Message too long messages. -- Reinier -- Problem re

Re: how to get the windows PATH env in cygwin

2009-12-01 Thread Reinier Post
On Tue, Dec 01, 2009 at 12:42:01PM -0600, DePriest, Jason R. wrote: > On Tue, Dec 1, 2009 at 10:03 AM, Andy Koppe <> wrote: > > 2009/12/1 Reinier Post: > >>> If you want to see the Windows PATH setting unmolested by Cygwin, you > >>> will either need to strip out the additions set by /etc/profile o

[OT] Re: how to get the windows PATH env in cygwin

2009-12-01 Thread Dave Korn
Lee Maschmeyer wrote: >> ran cmd.exe from start menu > > And that gets the info into Cygwin - how? > Yet another false inference. You were being shown an illustrative comparison that was supposed to demonstrate a point about the underlying mechanisms in play, not an answer to the original que

Re: how to get the windows PATH env in cygwin

2009-12-01 Thread Lee Maschmeyer
ran cmd.exe from start menu And that gets the info into Cygwin - how? -- Lee Maschmeyer Wayne State University Detroit, Michigan, USA -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Un

Re: how to get the windows PATH env in cygwin

2009-12-01 Thread Dave Korn
Lee Maschmeyer wrote: >> To verify it, all you have to do is open a bash prompt (Cygwin.bat, >> mintty, rxvt, whatever) and then launch a cmd.exe or powershell. >> >> Check the path in the bash prompt and you will see the cygwin stuff at >> the beginning of it. >> >> Check the path in the cmd.exe o

Re: how to get the windows PATH env in cygwin

2009-12-01 Thread DePriest, Jason R.
On Tue, Dec 1, 2009 at 2:24 PM, Lee Maschmeyer <> wrote: >> To verify it, all you have to do is open a bash prompt (Cygw > 0/tty2W0(2)$ echo $PATH > /home/lmaschm/bin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/bin:/bin:/usr/X11R6/bin:/c/Program > Files/Common Files/Microsoft Shared/Windows Live:/c/WINDOWS > /system32:/c/

Re: how to get the windows PATH env in cygwin

2009-12-01 Thread Lee Maschmeyer
To verify it, all you have to do is open a bash prompt (Cygwin.bat, mintty, rxvt, whatever) and then launch a cmd.exe or powershell. Check the path in the bash prompt and you will see the cygwin stuff at the beginning of it. Check the path in the cmd.exe or powershell prompt which was run *after

Re: how to get the windows PATH env in cygwin

2009-12-01 Thread Jeremy Bopp
DePriest, Jason R. wrote: > On Tue, Dec 1, 2009 at 10:03 AM, Andy Koppe <> wrote: >> 2009/12/1 Reinier Post: If you want to see the Windows PATH setting unmolested by Cygwin, you will either need to strip out the additions set by /etc/profile or avoid running under an environment mod

Re: how to get the windows PATH env in cygwin

2009-12-01 Thread DePriest, Jason R.
On Tue, Dec 1, 2009 at 10:03 AM, Andy Koppe <> wrote: > 2009/12/1 Reinier Post: >>> If you want to see the Windows PATH setting unmolested by Cygwin, you >>> will either need to strip out the additions set by /etc/profile or avoid >>> running under an environment modified by /etc/profile. >> >> It

Re: how to get the windows PATH env in cygwin

2009-12-01 Thread Andy Koppe
2009/12/1 Reinier Post: >> If you want to see the Windows PATH setting unmolested by Cygwin, you >> will either need to strip out the additions set by /etc/profile or avoid >> running under an environment modified by /etc/profile. > > It doesn't add, actually - it replaces it. You're wrong. The Cy

Re: how to get the windows PATH env in cygwin

2009-12-01 Thread Reinier Post
On Mon, Nov 30, 2009 at 07:40:51PM -0600, Jeremy Bopp wrote: [...] > If you want to see the Windows PATH setting unmolested by Cygwin, you > will either need to strip out the additions set by /etc/profile or avoid > running under an environment modified by /etc/profile. It doesn't add, actually

Re: how to get the windows PATH env in cygwin

2009-11-30 Thread Dave Korn
Andrew DeFaria wrote: > The real question here is what does he need the Windows PATH for? Agreed, it depends what purposes OP wants it for and whether it absolutely positively has to be the exact windows path(*) or not. For complete accuracy from within a cygwin environment you'd probably have t

Re: how to get the windows PATH env in cygwin

2009-11-30 Thread Andrew DeFaria
On 11/30/2009 08:05 PM, Dave Korn wrote: Andrew DeFaria wrote: Simply start the Windows command prompt and type in echo %PATH%. You must need to re-read the subject line, since your suggested method does not actually answer the question asked. Indeed! You're right. So then the answer is that yo

Re: how to get the windows PATH env in cygwin

2009-11-30 Thread Dave Korn
Andrew DeFaria wrote: > Simply start the Windows command prompt and type in echo %PATH%. You must need to re-read the subject line, since your suggested method does not actually answer the question asked. cheers, DaveK -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ:

Re: how to get the windows PATH env in cygwin

2009-11-30 Thread Andrew DeFaria
On 11/30/2009 06:40 PM, Jeremy Bopp wrote: Just to clarify since there seems to be a little confusion concerning what the OP needs. Gary's suggestion will convert the value of the PATH environment variable as the shell used to run cygpath sees it to a value which is acceptable by Windows-native

Re: how to get the windows PATH env in cygwin

2009-11-30 Thread Jeremy Bopp
Gary Johnson wrote: > On 2009-12-01, ??? wrote: > >>> $PATH returns the value of PATH. For example, to display the path, use "echo >>> $PATH". >>> This is not Cygwin-specific though so further discussion is likely to be >>> off-topic for this list. > >> What i mean is that, how to onl

Re: how to get the windows PATH env in cygwin

2009-11-30 Thread Gary Johnson
On 2009-12-01, ??? wrote: > > $PATH returns the value of PATH. For example, to display the path, use "echo > > $PATH". > > This is not Cygwin-specific though so further discussion is likely to be > > off-topic for this list. > What i mean is that, how to only get the env path of windo

Re: how to get the windows PATH env in cygwin

2009-11-30 Thread Mark J. Reed
2009/11/30 ︶ㄣ無名氏: > What i mean is that, how to only get the env path of windows, such as, > `C:\WINDOWS\system32;C:\WINDOWS;C:\WINDOWS\System32\Wbem". As I understand it, by the time you're in a Cygwin bash shell, the environment variable has been changed by the Cygwin DLL, and the original Windo

Re: how to get the windows PATH env in cygwin

2009-11-30 Thread Huang Bambo
2009/12/1 �屺��o名氏 : > What i mean is that, how to only get the env path of windows, such as, > `C:\WINDOWS\system32;C:\WINDOWS;C:\WINDOWS\System32\Wbem". > > `echo $PATH' would display the path of cygwin: > echo $PATH > /usr/local/bin:/usr/bin:/bin:/usr/X11R6/bin:/usr/local/sbin:/usr/sbin:/sbin > D

Re: how to get the windows PATH env in cygwin

2009-11-30 Thread ︶ㄣ無名氏
What i mean is that, how to only get the env path of windows, such as, `C:\WINDOWS\system32;C:\WINDOWS;C:\WINDOWS\System32\Wbem". `echo $PATH' would display the path of cygwin: echo $PATH /usr/local/bin:/usr/bin:/bin:/usr/X11R6/bin:/usr/local/sbin:/usr/sbin:/sbin > $PATH returns the value of PAT

Re: how to get the windows PATH env in cygwin

2009-11-30 Thread Chip Panarchy
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Path_%28variable%29 On Tue, Dec 1, 2009 at 6:43 AM, Larry Hall (Cygwin) wrote: > On 11/30/2009 07:44 AM, nwpu053...@gmail.com wrote: >> >> how to get the windows PATH env in cygwin. thanks. > > $PATH returns the value of PATH. For example, to

Re: how to get the windows PATH env in cygwin

2009-11-30 Thread Larry Hall (Cygwin)
On 11/30/2009 07:44 AM, nwpu053...@gmail.com wrote: how to get the windows PATH env in cygwin. thanks. $PATH returns the value of PATH. For example, to display the path, use "echo $PATH". This is not Cygwin-specific though so further discussion is likely to be off-topic for

how to get the windows PATH env in cygwin

2009-11-30 Thread nwpu053...@gmail.com
how to get the windows PATH env in cygwin. thanks. -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple