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Re: How to execute bash file under /usr/bin despite settingPATH="/usr/local/bin:/usr/bin:/bin:/usr/X11R6/bin:$PATH"


On Thu, 4 Dec 2003, Jon A. Lambert wrote:

> "Nguyen, Huu-Dung" wrote:
> > Thank for the answers
> >
> > Can any gurus tell me what is the real use of /usr/bin as a mount point and
> > /usr/bin as a physically existing directory in the Cygwin directory ?
> > Sometime i am too much curious !?
> >
> > Nguyen
>
> I'm stumped as I can't think of any use.
> Why did you create the physical directory?
> --
> J. Lambert

Same reason as having c:\cygwin\dev, c:\cygwin\cygdrive, and
c:\cygwin\proc -- Tab completion. ;-)
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