From: john@exmachina.net (John Mullee) Subject: Re: cygwin b20 bash path usage? 12 Nov 1998 03:53:57 -0800 Message-ID: <3.0.3.16.19981111153538.18ff6f0e.cygnus.gnu-win32@exmachina.net> References: <3647A87A.AE660CB7@ix.netcom.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" To: William D Kirby , gnu-win32@cygnus.com At 21:44 1998-11-09 -0500, you wrote: >I made the mistake of creating and trying to use an exectable named >test.exe. under bash v2.02 in the cygwin beta 20 package. Nothing >happened when it executed. I suspect that bash was executing the program >test.exe in the cygwin-b20\bin directory rather my test.exe in the >directory I was using. > >Is this proper behavior in bash? I assumed the directory being worked in >was searched first then along the PATH directory list. This seems to suggest that your path contains "." after /cygnus/cygwin-b20/H-i586-cygwin32/bin try ./test.exe or change your path to: --8<-- cygnus.bat set PATH=.;C:\cygnus\cygwin-b20\H-i586-cygwin32\bin;%PATH%; --8<-- John - For help on using this list (especially unsubscribing), send a message to "gnu-win32-request@cygnus.com" with one line of text: "help".