Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help AT cygwin DOT com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner AT cygwin DOT com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Reply-To: Cygwin List Message-Id: <6.1.0.6.0.20040720163351.0338a438@pop.prospeed.net> X-Sender: Date: Tue, 20 Jul 2004 16:38:20 -0400 To: Jason Joines , cygwin AT cygwin DOT com From: Larry Hall Subject: Re: setting windows environment variables In-Reply-To: References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" At 04:18 PM 7/20/2004, you wrote: > I have a Cygwin BASH script which takes user input, uses ldapsearch, etc., to set a bunch of environment variables. I can then use these from bash with no problem. I would also like to make these environment variables available to the windows command interpreter. > Is there anyway to do this? Only if the windows command interpreter is a child of the bash process you run from. Otherwise, your best bet is to export the variables as some batch file and run that in the windows command interpreter. > Also, is there a BASH equivalent of the windows cmd start command that lets you start many processes without having to wait on each to finish? How about 'cygstart'? -- Larry Hall http://www.rfk.com RFK Partners, Inc. (508) 893-9779 - RFK Office 838 Washington Street (508) 893-9889 - FAX Holliston, MA 01746 -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/