setting windows environment variables

[Jason Joines]

	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?
> 
> 
> 
> 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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