BUG?: /usr/bin is accepted as /bin in PATH

Jörg Schaible Joerg.Schaible@Elsag-Solutions.com
Tue Dec 2 11:57:00 GMT 2003


Nguyen, Huu-Dung wrote on Tuesday, December 02, 2003 12:27 PM:

[snip]
> #!/bin/sh
> echo "Hello World"
> 
> and move this bash file from every directory set for PATH in
> /etc/profile and see that i can NOT call this bash file when
> it is in /usr/bin.
> 
> Any help is appreciated

This is in Cygwin by design, since /usr/bin is mounted to /bin.

Regards,
Jörg

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