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Re: How to make persistent changes to PATH in cygwin?


On 1/2/2013 1:32 PM, Aaron Schneider wrote:
I've tried this:

export PATH=`echo $PATH`:/newdir/

And PATH contains the new dir, but after closing and reopening mintty (with cygserver stopped)
changes are lost.

How to solve that?

Every time you open up mintty you are starting a new login bash. The way to set environment variables "persistently" (your term, not mine) is to add the export command to your .bash_profile or similar bash file read by bash when it starts up. This is not specific to cygwin, but is normal Unix-like behavior.

Regards -- Eliot Moss

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