On Fri, 26 Nov 2004, Jason Curl wrote:
I have a similar question: I had to modify 'profile' to change $PATH=xxxx:$PATH to $PATH=xxxx
How can I simply add $SYSTEMROOT:$SYSTEMROOT/system32 to this? It doesn't work as-is because $SYSTEMROOT = C:\Windows (and this is therefore not interpreted by the path). Rephrasing, what do I use to translate "C:\WINDOWS" to "/cygdrive/c/windows"?
I had to do this because some nasty things in my path were causing
First off, you could have actually removed the offending entries from the PATH using something like
OFFENDING_ENTRY="/cygdrive/c/ClearCase/bin" PATH="`echo "$PATH" | sed "s#:$OFFENDING_ENTRY##"`"
Alternatively, if you want to translate any Win32 path to a Cygwin (POSIX) path, use the "cygpath" utility, like this:
PATH=${PATH}:"`cygpath -u "$SYSTEMROOT/system32"`"
HTH, Igor P.S. FWIW, the question is not that similar, and you should probably have started a new thread with it.
Sorry - next time it will be a new thread. OTOH, this is exactly the solution I didn't know how to implement. Spasibo Bolshoi!
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