$ ora8i.sh <---------------- Execute this script
--8<--8<--
$ printenv ORA_HOME <---------------- After execution of script
<----------- After execution, ORA_HOME has nothing !!
$ printenv PATH <---------------- After execution, PATH does't change!!
This isn't a cygwin issue.
Because the PATH you change in your script is a variable that's local to the shell running it. Because you call your script as a binary, another shell is spawned (the #!/bin/sh basically tells the kernel to use /bin/sh as the interpreter).
Try running you script as ". ora8i.sh" and it'll work : the "." is a shell command that means "execute this shell script" (in the current shell).
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