How to make persistent changes to PATH in cygwin?

How to make persistent changes to PATH in cygwin?

[Aaron Schneider]

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

[Eliot Moss]

On 1/2/2013 1:32 PM, Aaron Schneider 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?

Every time you open up mintty you are starting a new login bash.
The way to set environment variables "persistently" (your term,
not mine) is to add the export command to your .bash_profile or
similar bash file read by bash when it starts up.  This is not
specific to cygwin, but is normal Unix-like behavior.

Regards -- Eliot Moss

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

[Aaron Schneider]

On 02/01/2013 19:35, Eliot Moss wrote:
> Every time you open up mintty you are starting a new login bash.
> The way to set environment variables "persistently" (your term,
> not mine) is to add the export command to your .bash_profile or
> similar bash file read by bash when it starts up.  This is not
> specific to cygwin, but is normal Unix-like behavior.

I've workarounded it adding the desired path to windows' path directly, 
which is imported into cygwin each time mintty is started.

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

[Andrew DeFaria]

On 1/2/2013 10:45 AM, Aaron Schneider wrote:
> On 02/01/2013 19:35, Eliot Moss wrote:
>> Every time you open up mintty you are starting a new login bash.
>> The way to set environment variables "persistently" (your term,
>> not mine) is to add the export command to your .bash_profile or
>> similar bash file read by bash when it starts up.  This is not
>> specific to cygwin, but is normal Unix-like behavior.
>
> I've workarounded it adding the desired path to windows' path 
> directly, which is imported into cygwin each time mintty is started.
>
That's not really a good solution. Take a moment to read the bash(1) man 
page and familiarize yourself with it's startup capabilities. Take 
control of your own environment.
-- 
Andrew DeFaria <http://defaria.com>
This space for rent


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

[Andrey Repin]

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

Sorry for my terrible english...


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

[Wynfield Henman]

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

[Christopher Faylor]

On Tue, Jan 29, 2013 at 12:35:23AM -0500, Chloe wrote:
>Try this:

Please don't resurrect three-week old threads, especially when the question
was answered repeatedly.

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

[Chloe]

Try this:

$ echo 'export PATH=$PATH:/newpath' >> ~/.bashrc

You can also edit your .bashrc file too. Here is an example line from the 
.bashrc

export PATH=$PATH:"/cygdrive/c/Program Files/Notepad++"

Here is a bonus useful thing

alias splitpath="echo \$PATH | cut -d: -f1- --output-delimiter=$'\n'"



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