X-Recipient: archive-cygwin AT delorie DOT com X-SWARE-Spam-Status: No, hits=1.6 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_20,FREEMAIL_FROM,KAM_THEBAT,KHOP_THREADED,SPF_SOFTFAIL X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Date: Fri, 4 Jan 2013 07:20:22 +0400 From: Andrey Repin Reply-To: Andrey Repin Message-ID: <502426840.20130104072022@mtu-net.ru> To: Aaron Schneider , cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Subject: Re: How to make persistent changes to PATH in cygwin? In-Reply-To: References: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-IsSubscribed: yes Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help AT cygwin DOT com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: 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 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. -- WBR, Andrey Repin (anrdaemon AT freemail DOT ru) 04.01.2013, <07:18> Sorry for my terrible english... -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple