calling native windows programs from cygwin with a sane path environment

some things fail if they’re called from within cygwin due to the path adjustments that are necessary for cygwin.

to call them with a sane (clean) windows-environment, do the following:

OLDPATH=”$PATH”

export PATH=”$(echo $PATH | tr ‘:’ ‘\n’ | grep /cygdrive | tr ‘\n’ ‘:’)”


	
call your windows tool here

	
export PATH=”$OLDPATH”