Re: cygwin: bash and PATH

[Noel Yap]

--- Adolf Markl <Adolf.Markl@t-online.de> wrote:
> Here is a thing I wonder about ... it's annoying!
> 
> # echo $PATH
>
.:/usr/local/bin:/usr/bin:/bin:/c/WinNT/system32:/c/WinNT:
> ...
> 
> # which -a find
> /bin/find
> /c/WinNT/system32/find
> /g/x/bin/find
> 
> # type -a find
> find is /c/WinNT/system32/find
> 
> # find
> FIND: Parameterformat nicht korrekt
> 
> That means, bash takes "/c/WinNT/system32/find"
> instead of "/bin/find"
> 
> Why???

This is a pure guess:

If you're in /c/WinNT/system32, the "." in your PATH
will execute /c/WinNT/system32/find.  Having "." in
your path can cause other problems (eg inadvertantly
executing Trojans).  I suggest you remove "." from
your PATH even if this is not what's causing the
problem.

HTH,
Noel


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