Just Do It! On Wed, 6 Oct 2004 11:18:31 -0600, Siegfried Heintze <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I looked in c:\Cygwin\home\Administrator and could not find a .profile file > using emacs. There was a .bash_profile file. Should I create a .profile > file? > Thanks, > Siegfried > > > > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Tuesday, October 05, 2004 5:38 PM > To: Siegfried Heintze > Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: RE: How to prepend a directory to the PATH to accommodate CVSNT? > > On 5 Oct, Siegfried Heintze wrote: > > >Anyway, in your case it should be as simple as this: > > > > > >PATH="/cygdrive/c/Program Files/cvsnt/bin:$PATH" > > > > > > > Where do I put this statement? .bashrc? > > You could, but why not put it in ~/.profile so it's read just once by > the login shell, and any child shells then have it in the environment, > instead of having to do it themselves? > > FRom memory, bash will look for ~/.bash_login, ~/.profile, ~/.login, > (not sure if it's in that order), and use the first one it finds. > > But it won't do this if $HOME was created by Cygwin "mkdir" instead of > by Windows Explorer, due to some mysterious access permissions problem. > > BTW, I use .profile because it's usable regardless of what (Bourne-like) > shell you use. > > luke > > -- > Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple > Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html > Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html > FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ > > > > > -- > Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple > Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html > Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html > FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ > >
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