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Re: setting cygwin PATH
- From: "John Morrison" <john at morrison dot mine dot nu>
- To: cygwin at cygwin dot com
- Date: Mon, 30 Apr 2007 18:30:15 +0100 (BST)
- Subject: Re: setting cygwin PATH
- References: <567357.80340.qm@web52005.mail.re2.yahoo.com>
On Mon, April 30, 2007 6:24 pm, Fungazid wrote:
> Hello to you the cygwin people,
>
> I'm working with cygwin.
> I added a directory "/home/T-COFFEE/bin/" to PATH by:
>
> export PATH=/home/T-COFFEE/bin:`printenv PATH`
$PATH is easier than the `printenv PATH` bit :)
> I typed it in the cygwin command line. after that
> 'printenv PATH' showed the new directory. But the new
> directory remained only temporarily (it disappeared
> after closing cygwin).
>
> How do I change it permanently ? (I tried to copy the
> .bashrc to my HOME directory, and messed up with it)
echo 'export PATH=/home/T-COFFEE/bin:$PATH' >> .bashrc
J.
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