From: gwatts@fnal.gov (Gordon Watts Brown University) Subject: Relative paths in the PATH variable 7 Jan 1999 22:03:01 -0800 Message-ID: <001b01be3ab7$7d931550$bee2e183.cygnus.gnu-win32@gtw_nt.fnal.gov> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: gnu-win cygnus mailing list Hi, Another question. I've noticed that if there is a relative path in the PATH environment variable, cygwin32 (B19) has trouble. For example, if PATH contains "./bin/CYGWIN" and the ./bin/CYGWIN contains a script foo.sh, and this script is marked as executable (and readable), if I do "bash> foo.sh" I get an error: cannot open foo.sh. If I type "type foo.sh", it correctly identifies the file using the relative path. Is this a limitation of bash or something else? I notice that this seems to work fairly well on most other UNIX shells. BTW, I tried to generate a little sample by creating a directory called junk, etc. etc. and was able to reproduce the result. Many thanks in advance for suggestions. Cheers, Gordon. - For help on using this list (especially unsubscribing), send a message to "gnu-win32-request@cygnus.com" with one line of text: "help".