How to set default $PATH without adding Windows path?

Al oss.elmar@googlemail.com
Thu Sep 30 05:22:00 GMT 2010


2010/9/29 cygwindummy <liumrb@gmail.com>:
>
> Cygwin and Cygwin-X terminals always have default $PATH containing all the
> Windows paths. This gives many problems both in the terminals running
> command line commands and also NetBeans IDE. How to change the default $PATH
> so it does not contain any Windows paths? i.e. just
> /usr/local/bin:/usr/bin:/bin

Permanently for the whole system

 echo "PATH=/usr/local/bin:/usr/bin:/bin" >> /etc/profile && source
/etc/profile

Permanently for one user:

 echo "PATH=/usr/local/bin:/usr/bin:/bin" >> ~/.bashrc && source  ~/.bashrc

Temporary for a single program start:

 env PATH=/usr/local/bin:/usr/bin:/bin netbeans.exe

Permanetly for one program:

 echo "export PATH=/usr/local/bin:/usr/bin:/bin" >> netbeans-starter.bsh
 echo "netbeans.exe" >> netbeans-starter.bsh
 chmod +x netbeans-starter.bsh

Adapt the names to your needs.

Al

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