env and PATH

[Marco Atzeri]

On 20/12/2024 17:51, Federico Kircheis via Cygwin wrote:
> Hello to everyone,
> 
> 
> I've noticed that env seems to handle the environment variable PATH in a 
> particular way
> 
> 
> -----
>  > cd /d;
>  > env -i PATH='C:\Windows;C:\Windows\system32;' /c/Windows/System32/ 
> WindowsPowerShell/v1.0/powershell.exe
> # in the powershell instance
> echo $env:PATH
> C;D:\Windows;C;D:\Windows\system32;
> ----

env is a Cygwin program so it will be better to set the PATH POSIX style

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$ env -i PATH="/cygdrive/c/Windows:/cygdrive/c/Windows/system32" 
/cygdrive/c/Windows/System32/WindowsPowerShell/v1.0/powershell.exe
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PS D:\cygwin64\home\marco> echo $env:PATH
echo $env:PATH
C:\Windows;C:\Windows\system32
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the PATH is correctly transformed from POSIX to Windows for the
invocation of the powershell

Regards
Marco