David,
This is not a Cygwin bug, this is the way bash is supposed to work.
Try 'man bash<Enter>3618g'. Also, searching the archives for 'bash
environment export' would have revealed some relevant messages.
Igor
On Sun, 13 Oct 2002, David Ryan wrote:
> I have very simple script that all it needs to do is export some
> environment variables. I can't seem to get it to work. All it does is..
>
> export PS2DEV=/usr/ps2dev
>
> If I do this on the command line it works fine.. and if I place it in
> /etc/profile it works also. I assume whats happenning is its starting a
> shell.. setting the environment variable and then closing the shell.
> How do I write a script that modifies the current environment?
>
> If I can get the one line working I'll be expanding it, so doing it on
> the command line everytime is not an option.
>
> I have the cygwin 1.3.12-4 installed. I also tried going back to
> 1.3.10-1 to see if it was a bug. I'm hoping theres something small I'm
> missing.
>
> Thanks,
> David.
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