export is not recognize in cmd while Cygwin is installed

Question

My machine is running win7 64bit. I installed Cygwin and added C:\cygwin64\bin to the PATH. Now linux commands work on cmd , but export is not recognized:

'export' is not recognized as an internal or external command, operable program or batch file.

while it works properly in Cygwin64 Terminal. How should I add it to windows default cmd?

Answer 1

In Windows use set instead of export.

Answer 2

export is not recognized in cmd.

'export' is not recognized as an internal or external command, operable program or batch file.

Let's open a bash shell and look for the export command:

DavidPostill@Hal /f/test
$ which export
which: no export in (.:/home/DavidPostill/bin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/bin:/c/Windows/system32:/c/Windows)

That tells us that there isn't a program called export.

So what is it?

export is a bash built in command.

Source export.

It has no meaning outside of a bash shell.

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Further Reading

• An A-Z Index of the Bash command line for Linux - An excellent reference for all things Bash command line related.
• export - Set an environment variable. Mark each name to be passed to child processes in the environment.

Answer 3

EXPORT SQUAD_DIRECTORY ="/path/to/SQUAD"

Alternative for export in windows is SET :

SET SQUAD_DIRECTORY ="/path/to/SQUAD"

Refer : https://ss64.com/nt/set.html