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Re: setting cygwin PATH


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 ?

Avi

--- John Morrison <john@morrison.mine.nu> wrote:

> 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
> 
> J.
> 
> 
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