Re: setting cygwin PATH

[Igor Peshansky <pechtcha at cs dot nyu dot edu>]

Ugh, top-posting...  Reformatted.

On Mon, 30 Apr 2007, Fungazid wrote:

> --- John Morrison <john<at>morrison<dot>mine<dot>nu> wrote:

<http://cygwin.com/acronyms/#PCYMTNQREAIYR>.  Thanks.

> > On Mon, April 30, 2007 6:24 pm, Fungazid wrote:
> > > Hello to you the cygwin people,
> > >
> > > I'm working with cygwin.
> > > I added a directory "/home/T-COFFEE/bin/" to PATH by:
> > >
> > > export PATH=/home/T-COFFEE/bin:`printenv PATH`
> >
> > $PATH is easier than the `printenv PATH` bit :)
> >
> > > I typed it in the cygwin command line. after that
> > > 'printenv PATH' showed the new directory. But the new
> > > directory remained only temporarily (it disappeared
> > > after closing cygwin).
> > >
> > > How do I change it permanently ? (I tried to copy the
> > > .bashrc to my HOME directory, and messed up with it)
> >
> > echo 'export PATH=/home/T-COFFEE/bin:$PATH' >>
> > .bashrc
>
> Hello John ;),
>
> I did the same thing with xemacs. The problem is that
> it is not enough if I want the path to stay
> permanently. How do cygwin knows to look at this file
> (".bashrc") in the HOME directory ?

Cygwin doesn't.  Bash does.  See the "INVOCATION" section of the bash man
page.  This is in no way Cygwin-specific.
	Igor
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