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 think what I need is for the system-wide PATH to look something like this: > > > /usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/bin:/cygdrive/c/WINDOWS/system32:/cygdrive/c/WINDOWS:/cygdrive/c/WINDOWS/System32/Wbem:/cygdrive/c/Program > Files (x86)/Microsoft SQL Server/90/Tools/binn/ And that's how it should look like. The fact that you have cygwin's paths *after* windows paths in your PATH is something you probably have modified by hand. > Is the PATH setting I'm looking for workable with Cygwin? The PATH variable in cygwin is exported from your /etc/profile file, which contains a line that sets cygwin's path with higher precedence over the PATH inherited from windows. > Or do the Windows paths need to come first for some reason? Quite the opposite. > Is there some guiding document about setting PATH system-wide to better > support scripts from Linux? Yes. The info you need is in the bash manpage, INVOCATION section. -- Huella de clave primaria: 0FDA C36F F110 54F4 D42B D0EB 617D 396C 448B 31EB
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