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Re: How to make persistent changes to PATH in cygwin?
- From: Eliot Moss <moss at cs dot umass dot edu>
- To: cygwin at cygwin dot com
- Date: Wed, 02 Jan 2013 13:35:24 -0500
- Subject: Re: How to make persistent changes to PATH in cygwin?
- References: <BLU0-SMTP361C219C76F9B12A644D34CE220@phx.gbl>
- Reply-to: moss at cs dot umass dot edu
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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