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Re: how to run a program from the bash console
- From: Igor Pechtchanski <pechtcha at cs dot nyu dot edu>
- To: Weiqi Gao <weiqigao at gmail dot com>
- Cc: cygwin at cygwin dot com
- Date: Wed, 31 Aug 2005 10:23:17 -0400 (EDT)
- Subject: Re: how to run a program from the bash console
- References: <4315BB19.2080100@vt.edu> <2ee1c2b30508310716531e6b45@mail.gmail.com>
- Reply-to: cygwin at cygwin dot com
On Wed, 31 Aug 2005, Weiqi Gao wrote:
> On 8/31/05, William Creel <wdcdw@XX.XXX> wrote:
<http://cygwin.com/acronyms/#PCYMTNQREAIYR>. Thanks.
> > I am attempting to run a Windows program from the Bash console. I
> > have attempted modifying my path in the .bash_profile file in my home
> > directory with the following line:
> >
> > PATH=/cygdrive/c/'Program Files'/'<program folder>'/<program
> > executable>:$PATH
> > export PATH
> >
> > This does not appear to work. Does anyone know how to do this?
>
> Should be
>
> PATH=/cygdrive/c/'Program Files'/'<program folder>'/:$PATH
> export PATH
>
> The program executable's name should not be part of the PATH
> enironment variable.
Actually, it should be
PATH=/cygdrive/c/'Program Files'/'<program folder>'/:"$PATH"
export PATH
since PATH in Windows usually already has spaces in it. This could be
simplified to
PATH="/cygdrive/c/Program Files/<program folder>/:$PATH"
HTH,
Igor
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