Lemke, Michael ST/HZA-ZIC2 wrote: > On Tuesday, November 07, 2017 7:12 AM Brian Inglis wrote: >>On 2017-11-06 14:59, Will Parsons wrote: >>> Will Parsons wrote: >>>> I asked about what I thought was a shell scripting problem: >>>> >>>> PATH=/usr/local/bin:/usr/bin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/c/Windows/system32:/c/Windows:/c/Windows/system32/wbem:/c/ProgramData/Oracle/Java/javapath:/c/Program:Files/Common:Files/Microsoft:Shared/Windows:Live:/c/Program:Files:(x86)/Common:Files/Microsoft:Shared/Windows:Live:/c/Program:Files/Dell/DW:WLAN:Card:/c/Program:Files:(x86)/Intel/iCLS:Client:/c/Program:Files/Intel/iCLS:Client:/c/Windows/System32/WindowsPowerShell/v1.0:/c/Program:Files/WIDCOMM/Bluetooth:Software:/c/Program:Files/WIDCOMM/Bluetooth:Software/syswow64:/c/Program:Files:(x86)/Windows:Live/Shared:/c/Program:Files:(x86)/Bazaar:/c/Program:Files:(x86)/QuickTime/QTSystem:/c/cygwin/home/william/bin:/c/ezwinports/bin:/c/Program:Files:(x86)/PuTTY:/usr/lib/lapack >>>> >>>> This doesn't look right, and would explain the strange shell output I >>>> reported. (The value of PATH under bash looks normal.) Did the >>>> installation >>>> of tcsh somehow get corrupted? I don't remember a particularly recent >>>> update >>>> to tcsh. > > How are you setting path? Do you have anything in your .cshrc/.login file? > Most > likely, you are doing it wrong. > >>> Another bit of info - I just noticed that the value of the (t)csh shell >>> variable 'path' is: >> >>In csh, "PATH" is a standard Unix environment variable whose value is a colon >>separated directory list, and "path" is a shell wordlist kept synchonized with >>"PATH". >>To list the wordlist entries with embedded spaces in csh, quote the variable >>name with the :q modifier in a foreach loop wordlist, and you get the desired >>result as easily as in your sh script [trimmed and ...s redacted]: >> >>.......% foreach p ( $path:q ) >>foreach? echo $p >>foreach? end > > And that is also key for setting path: > > set path = ( ... $path:q ) > > I had this bug ($path instead of $path:q) for 20 years in my init files.
Bingo! I had this line in my ~/.cshrc: set path = ( /usr/local/bin /usr/bin /bin /usr/sbin $path ) Changing $path to $path.q solved the problem. (I am still somewhat puzzled, though - the original PATH that I quoted in my original query did have spaces, so what changed?) At any rate, the problem seems to be solved, so thank you very much. -- Will -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple
