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: Remove Cygwin Path for Called Batch Script


On 2008-03-25 13:30Z, Scott Wegner wrote:
> 
> I am trying to create a "wrapper" Cygwin bash script to add 
> functionality to an existing Windows batch script.  In my Cygwin script, 
> I would like to call the batch file with something like:
> 
> ...
> cmd.exe /k batch-script.bat params
> ...
> 
> Calling the script in this fashion seems to generally work (in that the 
> script executes).  However, I have trouble because the Cygwin path is 
> prepended to the Windows path in the batch script.  As a result, trying 
> to use the Windows "find" use Cygwin's instead.

If you write
  %SystemRoot%\system32\find
in the batch file, then you'll get the msw "find" whether or not
any Cygwin directory is on your path.


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


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