How to execute bash file under /usr/bin despite setting PATH="/usr/local/bin:/usr/bin:/bin:/usr/X11R6/bin:$PATH"

[Jörg Schaible]

Hello Huh-Dung,

Nguyen, Huu-Dung wrote on Wednesday, December 03, 2003 10:43 AM:
> Please help me to understand Cygwin because i am an unexperienced
> user of CygWin 
> 
> I want to start some bash files or *.exe under /usr/bin so i
> have set in my profile file ...
> PATH="/usr/local/bin:/usr/bin:/bin:/usr/X11R6/bin:$PATH" ...
> and put my bash files or *.exe under /usr/bin but i can not
> start them from anywhere in the Cygwin session.
> 
> Why and what can i do to start them from anywhere in the Cygwin
> session ? 

as explained before /usr/bin is a mount point to /bin and therefroe nothing physically located in /usr/bin will be found. This behaviour for mount point is *normal* in any Unix. This mount point is standard for Cygwin as explained in the FAQ:

http://cygwin.com/faq/faq_4.html#SEC61

Regards,
Jörg

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