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Re: setting windows environment variables
- From: Larry Hall <lh-no-personal-replies-please at cygwin dot com>
- To: Jason Joines <joines at bus dot okstate dot edu>, cygwin at cygwin dot com
- Date: Tue, 20 Jul 2004 16:38:20 -0400
- Subject: Re: setting windows environment variables
- References: <cdjumr$j90$1@sea.gmane.org>
- Reply-to: Cygwin List <cygwin at cygwin dot com>
At 04:18 PM 7/20/2004, you wrote:
> I have a Cygwin BASH script which takes user input, uses ldapsearch, etc., to set a bunch of environment variables. I can then use these from bash with no problem. I would also like to make these environment variables available to the windows command interpreter.
> Is there anyway to do this?
Only if the windows command interpreter is a child of the bash process you
run from. Otherwise, your best bet is to export the variables as some
batch file and run that in the windows command interpreter.
> Also, is there a BASH equivalent of the windows cmd start command that lets you start many processes without having to wait on each to finish?
How about 'cygstart'?
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