Why does /etc/profile include /bin and /usr/bin in the PATH?
Dave Korn
dave.korn.cygwin@gmail.com
Tue Jun 8 17:39:00 GMT 2010
On 07/06/2010 22:17, Christopher Faylor wrote:
> Maybe this has been discussed and I just don't remember but why are /bin
> and /usr/bin included in the default path in /etc/profile? Since they
> point to the same directory that just slows bash down a little when
> finding files not in /bin.
Some things try to access $0/../share/....
Since $prefix=/usr for cygwin, /usr/bin is the expected location. There's
no alias for /share like there is for /bin and /lib.
cheers,
DaveK
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