On 2007-09-16, Cole Radcliffe wrote: > "Cole Radcliffe" wrote: > > > I do an ls -la and I see I have an executable called "executable.exe". > > I chmod to 777. Then I try to type "execut" and I press tab and it > > does not find it. When I type in the entire name and press enter, bash > > says the command is not found! It works fine on cygwin-x. > > Type ./executable or set your PATH variable to include "." (the latter > is usually not recommended, even in cygwin, I think). > > And try to read up about PATH. > > Regards -- Markus > > I tried "set PATH=.:$PATH" and that did not work. When I echoed the > $PATH I realized that that command had no effect. What am I doing > wrong?
Cygwin's default shell is bash and bash does not use 'set' to set environment variables. Just execute this: PATH=.:$PATH Regards, Gary -- 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/