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Re: PATH and SystemRoot oddity
On Sat, 27 Nov 2004, Jason Curl wrote:
> Igor Pechtchanski wrote:
> > > > 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"`"
> >
> > Glad it helped. Out of curiosity, which one of the two solutions above
> > did you mean?
>
> Originally, I was looking for something like 'cygpath' in it, but I was
> pleasantly surprised by the other solution:
>
> OFFENDING_ENTRY="/cygdrive/c/ClearCase/bin"
> PATH="`echo "$PATH" | sed "s#:$OFFENDING_ENTRY##"`"
>
> I'm now modifying it to remove paths with 'Rational' in it.
FWIW, the above 'sed' solution will only work for removing one path (with
no special characters, like '\'). For removing any path with "Rational"
in it, the regular expression will have to be more elaborate, e.g.,
OFFENDING_KEYWORD="Rational"
PATH="`echo "$PATH" | sed "s#:[^:]*$OFFENDING_KEYWORD[^:]*##"`"
Note that this still won't work properly if OFFENDING_KEYWORD contains
'\'s or '*'s. If you want proper quoting, you should probably use the
perl regular expressions, in which case it might be easier to simply break
up the PATH at ':'s and reconstruct it after removing all entries with the
offending keyword, e.g.,
OFFENDING_KEYWORD="Rational"
PATH="`echo "$PATH" | perl -pe '$_=join(":",grep(!/\Q'"$OFFENDING_KEYWORD"'\E/,split(/:/)))'`"
> I'd rather not modify the original 'profile' if I can help it. Makes it
> easier to destroy cygwin and reinstall from scratch.
Well, if you're worried about modifying the default /etc/profile, you
might consider putting the above into a /etc/profile.d script, e.g.,
/etc/profile.d/no_rational.sh, which will be executed by the default
/etc/profile. If you use [t]csh, you might also want to consider cooking
up an equivalent /etc/profile.d/no_rational.csh script.
HTH,
Igor
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