From: "Dixon, Scott" <scottdi AT amazon DOT com>
To: Eric Blake <ebb9 AT byu DOT net>, "cygwin AT cygwin DOT com" <cygwin AT cygwin DOT com>
Date: Mon, 14 Jan 2008 18:23:36 -0800
Subject: RE: Environment variables in bash don't get set from scripts
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Huh; the 'startxwin.bat' script uses "SET":

@echo off
SET DISPLAY=127.0.0.1:0.0

Which formally worked but now doesn't. I have to manually set DISPLAY after running the startxwin.bat script. Furthermore when I run ssh-agent.exe it is unable to set SSH_AUTH_SOCKET and SSH_AGENT_PID.

-----Original Message-----
From: Eric Blake [mailto:ebb9 AT byu DOT net]
Sent: January 14, 2008 18:09
To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com; Dixon, Scott
Subject: Re: Environment variables in bash don't get set from scripts

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According to Dixon, Scott on 1/14/2008 4:38 PM:
| I'm using cygwin on XP Pro and was having no issues untill I updated
some dev pacakages the other day. Now none of my shell scripts are able to
SET environment variables for a session. I can "export foo=something" but
my scripts can't "SET foo something". Any -deas? Thanks

[http://cygwin.com/acronyms/#PCYMTWLL]

'SET' is not bash syntax, but cmd.exe (or perhaps you were thinking of
'set' in tcsh).  You were correct in using 'export' syntax for a bash script.

- --
Don't work too hard, make some time for fun as well!

Eric Blake             ebb9 AT byu DOT net
volunteer cygwin bash maintainer
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