Umm, actually, they should. The default /etc/profile prepends
"/usr/local/bin:/usr/bin:/bin" to the PATH, and it's only executed when
bash gets a --login flag.
Igor
On Tue, 29 Jul 2003, Lisbeth Kellogg wrote:
> Yes, that would fix it. But I think we have a bug here. In cygwin I
> get:
>
> $ echo $PATH
> /usr/local/bin:/usr/bin:/bin:/cygdrive/c/WINNT/system32:/cygdrive/c/WINNT:/cygdrive/c/WINNT/System32/Wbem:/cygdrive/c/Program
> Files/Microsoft SQL
> Server/80/Tools/BINN:/cygdrive/c/PROGRA~1/ULTRAE~1:/usr/bin:/cygdrive/c/blat184:/cygdrive/c/API360/Programs:/cygdrive/c/Program
> Files/Adobe/Acrobat 4.0/Distillr:/cygdrive/c/xmlconvert:/cygdrive/c/Program
> Files/msxsl:/cygdrive/c/Program Files/PKWARE:/cygdrive/c/Program
> Files/PKWARE/PKZIPC:/cygdrive/c/jdk1.3.1_02/bin:/cygdrive/c/TIFFlIb
>
> In DOS I get:
>
> C:\WINNT>bash -c "echo $PATH"
> /cygdrive/c/WINNT/system32:/cygdrive/c/WINNT:/cygdrive/c/WINNT/System32/Wbem:/cygdrive/c/Program
> Files/Microsoft SQL
> Server/80/Tools/BINN:/cygdrive/c/PROGRA~1/ULTRAE~1:/usr/bin:/cygdrive/c/blat184:/cygdrive/c/API360/Programs:/cygdrive/c/Program
> Files/Adobe/Acrobat 4.0/Distillr:/cygdrive/c/xmlconvert:/cygdrive/c/Program
> Files/msxsl:/cygdrive/c/Program Files/PKWARE:/cygdrive/c/Program
> Files/PKWARE/PKZIPC:/cygdrive/c/jdk1.3.1_02/bin:/cygdrive/c/TIFFlib
>
> They shouldn't be different.
> ---
> Lisbeth Kellogg
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Elfyn McBratney [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Sent: Tuesday, July 29, 2003 4:33 PM
> To: Lisbeth Kellogg
> Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: RE: Problem call a cygwin command from a dos batch file
>
>
> On Tue, 29 Jul 2003, Lisbeth Kellogg wrote:
>
> > I guess I found the answer to my own question. Since some other
> > people have had this same problem, here is the solution.
> >
> > There is a problem with the PATH environment under Win 2000. To
> > identify the problem I typed the following in DOS:
> >
> > bash -c "which sort"
> >
> > I got a response of "/cygdrive/c/WINNT/system32/sort" instead of
> > "/usr/bin/sort". This is the DOS sort command, not the cygwin sort
> > command. I just had to change my command to:
> >
> > bash -c "c:/cygwin/bin/sort -t \| -k 3 -k 11 -k 12 -o
> > sortedfile.txt unsortedfile.txt"
> >
> > This could be a problem any time the DOS and cygwin commands have the
> > same name.
>
> Like find, rexec, ... Having 'C:\Cygwin\bin' at the front of your PATH
> environment variable would have solved this.
>
> Elfyn
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