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Re: How to make persistent changes to PATH in cygwin?
- From: Wynfield Henman <wynfield at gmail dot com>
- To: cygwin at cygwin dot com
- Date: Thu, 3 Jan 2013 21:20:12 -0800
- Subject: Re: How to make persistent changes to PATH in cygwin?
- References: <BLU0-SMTP361C219C76F9B12A644D34CE220@phx.gbl>
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@users.sourceforge.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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