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Re: How to make persistent changes to PATH in cygwin?


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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WBR,
Andrey Repin (anrdaemon@freemail.ru) 04.01.2013, <07:18>

Sorry for my terrible english...


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