Windows equivalent of export

Question

I am trying to follow some instructions for creating a directory using the command line  The instructions are     export PROJ HOME  HOME proj 111   export PROJECT BASEDIR PROJ HOME exercises ex1   mkdir -p  PROJ HOME   Are these windows commands  Are there windows equivalents

User · Accepted Answer

To translate your  nix style command script to windows command batch style it would go like this   SET PROJ HOME  USERPROFILE  proj 111 SET PROJECT BASEDIR  PROJ HOME  exercises ex1 mkdir   PROJ HOME     mkdir on windows doens t have a -p parameter   from the MKDIR    help      MKDIR creates any intermediate directories in the path  if needed    which basically is what mkdir -p  or --parents for purists  on  nix does  as taken from the man guide

User · Answer

There is not an equivalent statement for export in Windows Command Prompt  In Windows the environment is copied so when you exit from the session  from a called command prompt or from an executable that set a variable  the variable in Windows get lost  You can set it in user registry or in machine registry via setx but you won t see it if you not start a new command prompt

[windows] Windows equivalent of $export

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