1.7.7: PATH in Bash shells

Csaba Raduly rcsaba@gmail.com
Sun Feb 6 23:28:00 GMT 2011


Hi Gerry

On Sun, Feb 6, 2011 at 9:43 PM, Gerry Reno  wrote:
> David, thanks for the response.   I put my responses inline...
>
> On 02/06/2011 02:16 PM, David Sastre wrote:
>> On Sun, Feb 06, 2011 at 01:33:37PM -0500, Gerry Reno wrote:
>>
>>> What is the proper method to set the PATH variable on a system-wide
>>> basis in Cygwin?
>>>
>>> Right now in the Cygwin Bash shell the PATH is set to:
>>>
>>>     bash-4.1$ echo $PATH
>>>     /cygdrive/c/WINDOWS/system32:/cygdrive/c/WINDOWS:/cygdrive/c/WINDOWS/System32/Wb
>>>     em:/cygdrive/c/Program Files (x86)/Microsoft SQL
>>>     Server/90/Tools/binn/:/usr/bin
>>>
>> First off, I'm curious about how do you start the bash shell. I ask
>> because you don't seem to have PS1 set correctly, and that should be
>> automated by startup-scripts.
>>
>
> I didn't change anything.  This is rather new installation of Cygwin.
>

Do you start Cygwin from cygwin.bat, or a shortcut of your own?
PS1 not being set is a symptom of the shell not being started as
interactive or login shell.
(cygwin.bat for instance starts bash --login -i)

I see you have a .bash_profile . Do you also have a .bashrc in your
home directory ?

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