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Re: Adding cygwin/bin to dos path
- From: <fergus at bonhard dot uklinux dot net>
- To: <cygwin at cygwin dot com>
- Cc: <fergus at bonhard dot uklinux dot net>
- Date: Fri, 5 Sep 2003 06:36:13 +0100
- Subject: Re: Adding cygwin/bin to dos path
- Reply-to: <fergus at bonhard dot uklinux dot net>
> Put it at the end so that the UNIX commands
> wouldn't override MS commands with the same
> name.
> My question is, was this a foolish and stupid thing
> to do?
In my opinion: putting it in the PATH is a wise and sensible thing to do,
giving you access to all this excellent stuff. But (my recommendation would
be - others may differ): put it before the Windows command pathnames. There
are very few clashes (find, sort, a couple of others I think) and the Cygwin
interpretations are incomparably "better" (more useful, versatile,
informative, helpful).
Fergus
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