Path Statement Not Being Evaluated by Bash in Cygwin
Eric Blake
ericblake@comcast.net
Tue Jul 5 20:34:00 GMT 2005
> > when I start bash and enter 'echo $path'. This is the path statement
> > returned.
>
> Not sure how you've got things setup, but `echo $path` should result in
> an empty return statement. the variable is PATH not path, case
> sensitive.
>
Or maybe you are thinking of tcsh syntax, where $path is a
space-separated synonym for the colon-separated $PATH. tcsh
syntax doesn't work in bash (hopefully, it is obvious why not),
and your listing had colons, so even if you were to use tcsh with
that $path you would have problems.
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Eric Blake
cygwin bash maintainer
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