setting windows environment variables
Larry Hall
lh-no-personal-replies-please@cygwin.com
Tue Jul 20 21:48:00 GMT 2004
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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