setting windows environment variables
Jason Joines
joines@bus.okstate.edu
Wed Jul 21 15:08:00 GMT 2004
Just found cygstart was in cygutils and used it. The --hide option was
just what I needed.
Thanks,
Jason Joines
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Larry Hall wrote:
> 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?
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> 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.
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>> 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?
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> How about 'cygstart'?
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