X-Recipient: archive-cygwin@delorie.com X-SWARE-Spam-Status: No, hits=-2.9 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00,KHOP_SPAMHAUS_DROP,KHOP_THREADED,T_RP_MATCHES_RCVD X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Message-ID: <50E47DEC.9030702@cs.umass.edu> Date: Wed, 02 Jan 2013 13:35:24 -0500 From: Eliot Moss Reply-To: moss@cs.umass.edu User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; rv:17.0) Gecko/17.0 Thunderbird/17.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: How to make persistent changes to PATH in cygwin? References: In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-IsSubscribed: yes Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@cygwin.com 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 -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple