Persisting values of environment variables

[Thorsten Kampe]

* Nate Meyer (2005-11-23 18:27 +0100)
> I'm trying to change the value of $HOME. If I do something like "export
> HOME="c:/whatever" $HOME is changed for that session. But after Cygwin is
> closed and restarted

You cannot start or close Cygwin...

> $HOME is set back to the default /home/user.

Sure, that's how it's always been in Linux and Windows.

> How can I persist the change to $HOME?

Put the value in the startup file of the application you are using.
This is _not_ Cygwin but probably bash (a /shell/).

Or put it in the place where you set environment variables in Windows.
/etc/profile mentions how $HOME is set.


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