Why does my Cygwin installation has a bad $PATH?

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I've just installed Cygwin on my computer. If I type echo $PATH I can see this output:

$ export $PATH
-bash: export: `/usr/local/bin:/usr/bin:/cygdrive/c/Program': not a valid identifier
-bash: export: `(x86)/NVIDIA': not a valid identifier
-bash: export: `Corporation/PhysX/Common:%CommonProgramFiles%/Microsoft': not a valid identifier
-bash: export: `Shared/Windows': not a valid identifier
-bash: export: `Live:/cygdrive/c/Windows/system32:/cygdrive/c/Windows:/cygdrive/c/Windows/System32/Wbem:/cygdrive/c/Windows/System32/WindowsPowerShell/v1.0:/cygdrive/c/Program': not a valid identifier
-bash: export: `Files/OpenVPN/bin:/cygdrive/c/Program': not a valid identifier
-bash: export: `(x86)/Git/cmd:/cygdrive/c/dev/java/apache-maven-3.2.3/bin:/cygdrive/c/programs/Java/jdk7/bin:/cygdrive/c/Users/edem/.lein/bin': not a valid identifier

It seems that there is some formatting issue here but I can't put my fingers on it. What could be the problem?

Adam Arold

Posted 2014-11-06T21:10:04.240

Reputation: 607

Answers

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You're trying to export the value of PATH. Just export the variable:

export PATH

Or you're just confusing export with echo.

garyjohn

Posted 2014-11-06T21:10:04.240

Reputation: 29 085

I get no result if I do export PATH. – Adam Arold – 2014-11-06T21:13:54.630

I guess I didn't make that edit fast enough. Are your trying to export PATH or echo $PATH? – garyjohn – 2014-11-06T21:15:32.090

Okey this was the problem. Now it is ok, thank you. – Adam Arold – 2014-11-06T21:16:13.810

I can't accept until my question is at least 10 minutes old. – Adam Arold – 2014-11-06T21:18:36.810

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