Newbie: Setting environment variables from a .bat file

[Christopher Faylor]

On Thu, Aug 17, 2006 at 11:10:20PM -0500, Neil Kolban wrote:
>Folks,
>I have some windows BAT files that set some windows CMD environment 
>variables.   I am hoping to run a shell under cygwin but when I run the BAT 
>files from a shell prompt, the BAT file set variables are not exported to 
>the parent shell.   Is there a way that I can have BAT file set variables 
>visible in the calling environment?

No.  Environment variables propagate "down" not "up".  You can't set an
environment variable in a child and see it in its parent, in Windows, Linux,
or Cygwin.

cgf

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