From: earnie_boyd AT hotmail DOT com (Earnie Boyd)
Subject: Re: .BASHRC-problem
21 Jan 1998 01:37:42 -0800
Message-ID: <19980119135817.10156.qmail.cygnus.gnu-win32@hotmail.com>
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To: juolja AT utu DOT fi
Cc: gnu-win32 AT cygnus DOT com

Your problem has to do with the way that parent and child processes 
relate to one another.  The way that you have tested you are creating a 
child process.  The parent will not inherit the environment of the 
child.  If you want the parent to obtain the changes in the environment 
you must use "source ~/.bashrc".

Hope this helps

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>Date: 	Thu, 15 Jan 1998 18:46:06 +0200
>From: "Juha =?ISO-8859-1?Q?J=E4ykk=E4"?= <juolja AT utu DOT fi>
>Reply-To: juolja AT utu DOT fi
>To: gnu-win32 <gnu-win32 AT cygnus DOT com>
>Subject: .BASHRC-problem
>
>As this problem is not discussed in any of the www-help pages (that I 
cou=
>ld
>find) and I couldn't find it in archives too, I'd like to ask it here.
>  I keep losing my environment variables I set within my .bashrc. A
>screenshot of the situation may clarify this. Here you go:
>--clip--
>juhaj AT IO 18:20:22 /obj>echo $PATH
>/bin
>juhaj AT IO 18:20:26 /obj>cat ~/.bashrc
>#!/bin/sh.exe
>PATH=3D$PATH:/home/juhaj/bin
>export PATH
>echo Test: $PATH
>juhaj AT IO 18:20:35 /obj>~/.bashrc
>Test: /bin://d/cygnus/b18/tcl/bin:/home/juhaj/bin
>juhaj AT IO 18:20:42 /obj>echo $PATH
>/bin
>juhaj AT IO 18:20:47 /obj>
>--clip--
>  Obviously it does not "keep" the exported variable but it also sets 
it =
>all
>wrong! Where did the "//d/cygnus/b18/tcl/bin:" part come from??? I am 
at =
>a
>total loss here. When I export variables, they should always be global, 
a=
>m I
>right? Any ideas or fixes?
>[system: NT40, intel, b18, coolview, bash-2.01]
>
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