From: Andrey Repin <anrdaemon@freemail.ru>
To: Soumya Roy <roy.valmont@gmail.com>, cygwin@cygwin.com
Subject: Re: HOME directory has somehow been overridden
Date: Tue, 07 Aug 2012 08:35:00 -0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1384340755.20120807121803@mtu-net.ru> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAF8vj8HV2HxJ=eZyDpn0BqONQtTtzX_qXgEb4GtyBsbSP+ON_w@mail.gmail.com>
Greetings, Soumya Roy!
Please, don't top-post.
> Howver as it turns out, previously when I was typing "$ ls ~" I was
> getting the contents of "Documents and Settings/Valnt"....but now
> however "$ ls ~" gives me the actual proper content of
> "/cygwin/home/Valnt"....which is perfect...however the basic problem
> still remains i.e the initial directory(after starting cygwin) that I
> am in is "Documents and Settings/Valnt"...
> so this is what I want to "fix"...
> Any suggestion is much appreciated.
You can define HOME in windows evironment. But that would also affect other
programs, that totally don't expect such action.
I mean, if you say $HOME, programs expect it to point you your user's profile.
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WBR,
Andrey Repin (anrdaemon@freemail.ru) 07.08.2012, <12:15>
Sorry for my terrible english...
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prev parent reply other threads:[~2012-08-07 8:20 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2012-08-02 17:30 Soumya Roy
2012-08-02 17:33 ` Earnie Boyd
2012-08-02 18:08 ` Soumya Roy
2012-08-02 21:52 ` Andrey Repin
2012-08-02 22:10 ` Andrew DeFaria
2012-08-03 16:22 ` Soumya Roy
2012-08-07 8:35 ` Andrey Repin [this message]
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