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Subject:	Re: How to make persistent changes to PATH in cygwin?
Date:	Wed, 02 Jan 2013 12:01:50 -0800
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On 1/2/2013 10:45 AM, Aaron Schneider wrote:
> On 02/01/2013 19:35, Eliot Moss wrote:
>> 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.
>
> I've workarounded it adding the desired path to windows' path 
> directly, which is imported into cygwin each time mintty is started.
>
That's not really a good solution. Take a moment to read the bash(1) man 
page and familiarize yourself with it's startup capabilities. Take 
control of your own environment.
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Andrew DeFaria <http://defaria.com>
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