PATH environment variable

[0free]

Microsoft Windows [Version 10.0.18363.778]

This was the command:
find /home/ubuntu/openwrt/build_dir/target-arm_cortex-a15+neon-vfpv4_musl_eabi/root-ipq806x/ -mindepth 1 -execdir touch -hcd "@1587126718" "{}" +

The was the error:
find: The relative path 'Files/WindowsApps/CanonicalGroupLimited.UbuntuonWindows_1804.2020.5.0_x64__79rhkp1fndgsc' is included in the PATH environment variable, which is insecure in combination with the -execdir action of find. Please remove that entry from $PATH

How to solve this?

[dseynhae]

What if you make the touch command "secure" by providing the full path for it?

find <location> -mindepth 1 -execdir /usr/bin/touch ....

That way, a relative directory in your PATH won't accidentally pick it up.

[therealkenc]

Looks like the relative path here is "Files/WindowsApps/CanonicalGroupLimited...." when "/mnt/c/Program Files/WindowsApps...." is intended. Somehow $PATH got borked by something before find was ever run. That something is almost always in (or called from) a customized .bashrc.

Possible remedies are:

1. Fix the script that's mangling the $PATH containing spaces.
2. Make the last thing you do in .bashrc setting $PATH explicitly (with or without Windows path components).
3. Put appendWindowsPath=false in /etc/wsl.conf so there aren’t spaces to mangle.

The (3) option will mean you'll lose your windows path components, but you can fix that up with (2). Or do (1).

[ghost]

Non modified .bashrc here, temporarily removing windows path before make e.g:"export PATH=":!removewindowspaths!" fixed it. (substitute with the result of echo $PATH)

[thagabe]

This worked for me as a quick temp fix!

[perrog]

Is it a bug in the commands (e.g. find), and not really WSL? Or just a bad practice to have spaces in paths for PATH env variable?
I got similar strange errors also when running sudo command from my WSL with custom Linux distrubution (CentOS7).

$ sudo yum remove autoconf.noarch
env: Files: No such file or directory
$ sudo cat /etc/resolv.conf
env: Files: No such file or directory