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Re: bash shell isn't inheriting the path from windows anymore


It still works that way here.  Perhaps something at your site is resetting
the path when you start bash.

A non-exhaustive list of likely suspects is: /cygwin.bat, /etc/profile,
~/.bash_profile, ~/.bashrc
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----- Original Message -----
From: "Stephen Smith" <ischis2@home.com>
To: "Cygwin" <cygwin@cygwin.com>
Sent: Tuesday, June 26, 2001 09:25
Subject: bash shell isn't inheriting the path from windows anymore


> It used to be that if your path was
PATH=C:\somedirectory;C:\someotherdirectory, your path would contain those
> directories.
>
> Why doesn't bash inherit those directories and how can I put back the
previous behaviour?




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