That's a good way to explaining why most shell commands don't work, and I can adjust accordingly and move on.
I seem to be limited to running just the .exe-files in c:\windows\ and ~\system32. Luckily, 'cmd.exe' (and where.exe) is among them, so I can make do by prefixing some commands with 'cmd'. Since this is not widely reported by other users, I suppose either my PATH must be larger than most - or it's not a popular feature with windows users. http://sourceforge.net/p/msys2/wiki/MSYS2%20introduction/ *When using the shells, try to remove as many entries from PATH as you can, ideally only leaving something like C:\Windows\system32. Mixing in programs from other MSYS2 installations, Cygwin installations or compiler toolchains is not supported and will probably break things in unexpected ways. Do not have these things in PATH when running MSYS2 unless you know exactly what you're doing.*
