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Re: Remove Cygwin Path for Called Batch Script
- From: Greg Chicares <gchicares at sbcglobal dot net>
- To: cygwin at cygwin dot com
- Date: Tue, 25 Mar 2008 14:09:24 +0000
- Subject: Re: Remove Cygwin Path for Called Batch Script
- References: <47E8FE86.9020405@hdfgroup.org>
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.
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