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.