Setting environment variables on commmand line

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Being able to set environment variables for the child process on the mintty
command line might be useful, because Windows shortcuts don't support them,
e.g.:

  mintty DISPLAY=:0 ssh server

Of course in shell this can be done already by prepending the variable
definition to tmintty, which passes its environment on to the child anyway:

  DISPLAY=:0 mintty ssh server

As a workaround for the shortcut issue one can either set a system-wide
Windows environment variable (hidden away somewhere in the "Computer"
properties), or create a batch file that sets the variable before invoking
mintty and have the shortcut point to that.

Original issue reported on code.google.com by andy.koppe on 13 Feb 2009 at 7:19

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Original comment by andy.koppe on 14 Mar 2009 at 8:51

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Actually, this will do:

mintty sh -c 'DISPLAY=:0 ssh server'

Original comment by andy.koppe on 14 Mar 2009 at 9:34

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Bash executes the -c command without forking a new process, so there's not much 
point
in MinTTY dabbling in shell functionality. This needs a TIP in the manual 
though.

Original comment by andy.koppe on 15 Mar 2009 at 6:51

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Added tip in r183.

Original comment by andy.koppe on 16 Mar 2009 at 12:31

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