Path environment variable

Daniel L Newhouse <[email protected]> Wed, 02 Jun 2021 09:52:03 -0500

Newsgroups	alt.comp.cygwin
Organization	Forte - www.forteinc.com
Message-ID	<[email protected]>

Classic shell scripting says that the proper command is

PATH = $PATH:$HOME/bin

When I type echo $PATH I get the following default path

 /usr/local/bin:/usr/bin:/cygdrive/c/Program Files (x86)/Common
Files/Oracle/Java/javapath:/cygdrive/c/Program Files/Microsoft
MPI/Bin:/cygdrive/c/ProgramData/Oracle/Java/javapath:/cygdrive/c/WINDOWS/system32:/cygdrive/c/WINDOWS:/cygdrive/c/WINDOWS/System32/Wbem:/cygdrive/c/WINDOWS/System32/WindowsPowerShell/v1.0:/cygdrive/c/WINDOWS/System32/OpenSSH:/cygdrive/c/Program
Files/dotnet:/cygdrive/c/Program Files/Microsoft SQL
Server/130/Tools/Binn:/cygdrive/c/Program Files
(x86)/QuickTime/QTSystem:/cygdrive/c/Program Files
(x86)/PuTTY:/cygdrive/c/Program Files (x86)/NVIDIA
Corporation/PhysX/Common:/cygdrive/c/Program Files/IDM Computer
Solutions/UltraEdit:/cygdrive/c/Program Files/Microsoft SQL
Server/Client SDK/ODBC/170/Tools/Binn:/cygdrive/c/Program Files
(x86)/IncrediBuild:/cygdrive/c/Program Files
(x86)/dotnet:/cygdrive/c/Program Files/CMake/bin:/cygdrive/c/Program
Files (x86)/Common Files/Roxio
Shared/DLLShared:%SystemRoot%/system32:%SystemRoot%:%SystemRoot%/System32/Wbem:%SYSTEMROOT%/System32/WindowsPowerShell/v1.0:%SYSTEMROOT%/System32/OpenSSH:/cygdrive/c/Program
Files (x86)/Common Files/Intel/Shared
Libraries/redist/intel64_win/compiler:/cygdrive/c/Users/Daniel
Newhouse/AppData/Local/Microsoft/WindowsApps:/cygdrive/c/Users/Daniel
Newhouse/.dotnet/tools