RE: Problem call a cygwin command from a dos batch file

[Elfyn McBratney <elfyn at emcb dot co dot uk>]

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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