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Re:Environment Variables and Path in Windows 10 by anon4 on Monday October 26, 2015 @04:23AM (#10450088)
But it doesn't take effect globally. The entire env-var system is stuck in the 60s when people would just re-launch their shell after making changes.
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Re:Environment Variables and Path in Windows 10 by andor on Monday October 26, 2015 @04:33AM (#10450112)
It never changes globally. Your shell process sets the variables for itself, and all subprocesses started afterwards inherit them.
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