From: Maarten Hoes <hoes.maarten@gmail.com>
To: Sasha Slijepcevic <sascha93101@yahoo.com>
Cc: cygwin@cygwin.com
Subject: Re: dash vs. bash inconsistency
Date: Thu, 23 Apr 2020 19:26:42 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAHvU03WFTaoZxhZLiw6+UrQRA5bYazSAx_fjMBoCtOU_Rox1Qw@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <931718380.354258.1587656281580@mail.yahoo.com>
Hi,
>>
> >> I have a setup.exe in the root of my Cygwin installation, C:\cygwin64,
> for example.
> >> If I set PATH=C:\cygwin64;C:\cygwin64\bin, I can run setup.exe from
> bash.
> >>
> >> C:\>set PATH=C:\cygwin64;C:\cygwin64\bin
> >>
> >> C:\>bash
> >> $ echo $PATH
> >> /:/usr/bin
> >> $ setup-x86_64.exe --version
> >> Cygwin setup 2.903
> >>
> >> However, in dash:
> >> C:\>dash
> >> $ echo $PATH
> >> /:/usr/bin
> >> $ setup-x86-64.exe --version
> >> dash: 2: setup-x86-64.exe: not found
> >>
> >> Am I misusing Cygwin trying to run executables from the top of the
> installation? Is it expected to all shells would behave the
> >> same?
>
>
>
For what it's worth (which admittedly may not be much):
If I copy
D:\cygwin64\bin\ls.exe to D:\cygwin64\ foo.exe
I can reproduce this issue: bash finds 'foo.exe' in D:\cygwin64, but dash
does not.
- Maarten
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2020-04-23 17:27 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
[not found] <17459431.114768.1585357770671.ref@mail.yahoo.com>
2020-03-28 1:09 ` Sasha Slijepcevic
2020-03-28 1:20 ` Thomas Wolff
2020-03-28 1:44 ` Eliot Moss
2020-04-23 15:38 ` Sasha Slijepcevic
2020-04-23 17:26 ` Maarten Hoes [this message]
2020-04-23 21:38 ` Mark Geisert
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