This is the mail archive of the cygwin mailing list for the Cygwin project.


Index Nav: [Date Index] [Subject Index] [Author Index] [Thread Index]
Message Nav: [Date Prev] [Date Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next]
Other format: [Raw text]

Re: $PATH contains dot but unclear where it comes from


On 2/19/2014 12:16 PM, Robert Klemme wrote:
On Wed, Feb 19, 2014 at 5:06 PM, Eliot Moss <moss@cs.umass.edu> wrote:
As others have said, cygwin does not add . to the path
itself.  It must be something in your .bash_profile,
.bashrc, or other script sourced from them.

Going through the output of your login with tracing
enabled, as previously described, really is a straightforward
way to track this down ...

You are right - that's why I did that already.  You would have found
out by reading earlier emails. But to no avail.  As I have written
already the very first line of the log looks like this

+ PATH='/usr/local/bin:/usr/bin:/cygdrive/c/PROGRAM FILES (X86)/NVIDIA
CORPORATION/PHYSX/COMMON:/cygdrive/c/PROGRAM FILES (X86)/INTEL/ICLS
CLIENT:/cygdrive/c/PROGRAM FILES/INTEL/ICLS CLIENT:/cygdrive/c/PROGRAM
FILES (X86)/RSA SECURID TOKEN COMMON:/cygdrive/c/PROGRAM FILES/COMMON
FILES/MICROSOFT SHARED/WINDOWS LIVE:/cygdrive/c/PROGRAM FILES
(X86)/COMMON FILES/MICROSOFT SHARED/WINDOWS
LIVE:/cygdrive/c/Windows/SYSTEM32:/cygdrive/c/Windows:/cygdrive/c/Windows/SYSTEM32/WBEM:/cygdrive/c/Windows/SYSTEM32/WINDOWSPOWERSHELL/V1.0:/cygdrive/c/PROGRAM
FILES/DELL/DELL DATA PROTECTION/ACCESS/ADVANCED/WAVE/GEMALTO/ACCESS
CLIENT/V5:/cygdrive/c/PROGRAM FILES (X86)/NTRU CRYPTOSYSTEMS/NTRU TCG
SOFTWARE STACK/BIN:/cygdrive/c/PROGRAM FILES/NTRU CRYPTOSYSTEMS/NTRU
TCG SOFTWARE STACK/BIN:/cygdrive/c/PROGRAM FILES (X86)/WINDOWS
LIVE/SHARED:/cygdrive/c/PROGRAM FILES/INTEL/INTEL(R) MANAGEMENT ENGINE
COMPONENTS/DAL:/cygdrive/c/PROGRAM FILES/INTEL/INTEL(R) MANAGEMENT
ENGINE COMPONENTS/IPT:/cygdrive/c/PROGRAM FILES (X86)/INTEL/INTEL(R)
MANAGEMENT ENGINE COMPONENTS/DAL:/cygdrive/c/PROGRAM FILES
(X86)/INTEL/INTEL(R) MANAGEMENT ENGINE
COMPONENTS/IPT:/cygdrive/c/Program Files/WIDCOMM/Bluetooth
Software:/cygdrive/c/Program Files/WIDCOMM/Bluetooth
Software/syswow64:/cygdrive/c/Program Files (x86)/Intel/OpenCL
SDK/2.0/bin/x86:/cygdrive/c/Program Files (x86)/Intel/OpenCL
SDK/2.0/bin/x64:/cygdrive/c/Program Files/Intel/Intel(R) Management
Engine Components/DAL:/cygdrive/c/Program Files/Intel/Intel(R)
Management Engine Components/IPT:/cygdrive/c/Program Files
(x86)/Intel/Intel(R) Management Engine
Components/DAL:/cygdrive/c/Program Files (x86)/Intel/Intel(R)
Management Engine Components/IPT:/cygdrive/c/Program
Files/Intel/WiFi/bin:/cygdrive/c/Program Files/Common
Files/Intel/WirelessCommon:/cygdrive/c/Users/rklemme/Applications/SysinternalsSuite:.'

It's from /etc/profile and the line looks like this

PATH="/usr/local/bin:/usr/bin:${PATH}"

The dot is already in the variable before bash even modifies it.

So that means you need to look in your Windows environment to understand
where this comes from.  Don't discount any start-up batch files
(i.e. cygwin.bat), etc., that you may be using to kick-start bash
either.


--
Larry

_____________________________________________________________________

A: Yes.
> Q: Are you sure?
>> A: Because it reverses the logical flow of conversation.
>>> Q: Why is top posting annoying in email?

--
Problem reports:       http://cygwin.com/problems.html
FAQ:                   http://cygwin.com/faq/
Documentation:         http://cygwin.com/docs.html
Unsubscribe info:      http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple


Index Nav: [Date Index] [Subject Index] [Author Index] [Thread Index]
Message Nav: [Date Prev] [Date Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next]