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Date: Wed, 02 Jan 2013 13:35:24 -0500
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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

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