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Subject: Re: How to make persistent changes to PATH in cygwin?
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Why are invoking 'echo' and not just simply
PATH=$PATH:/newdir      ? Which is faster & take less resources..    I

On Wed, Jan 2, 2013 at 10:32 AM, Aaron Schneider
<notstop2 AT users DOT sourceforge DOT net> 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?
>
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