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Date: Fri, 4 Jan 2013 07:20:22 +0400
From: Andrey Repin <anrdaemon AT freemail DOT ru>
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Subject: Re: How to make persistent changes to PATH in cygwin?
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Greetings, Aaron Schneider!

> I've tried this:

> export PATH=`echo $PATH`:/newdir/

PATH=$PATH:/newdir
export PATH

> And PATH contains the new dir, but after closing and reopening mintty 
> (with cygserver stopped) changes are lost.

> How to solve that?

Either, change windows environment, from which Cygwin $PATH inherited, or make
adjustments to Cygwin startup scripts.


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Andrey Repin (anrdaemon AT freemail DOT ru) 04.01.2013, <07:18>

Sorry for my terrible english...


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