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Re: setting windows environment variables


At 04:18 PM 7/20/2004, you wrote:
>    I have a Cygwin BASH script which takes user input, uses ldapsearch, etc., to set a bunch of environment variables.  I can then use these from bash with no problem.  I would also like to make these environment variables available to the windows command interpreter.
>    Is there anyway to do this?


Only if the windows command interpreter is a child of the bash process you
run from.  Otherwise, your best bet is to export the variables as some
batch file and run that in the windows command interpreter.


>    Also, is there a BASH equivalent of the windows cmd start command that lets you start many processes without having to wait on each to finish?


How about 'cygstart'?


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