From: Igor Pechtchanski <pechtcha@cs.nyu.edu>
To: Reini Urban <rurban@x-ray.at>
Cc: cygwin@cygwin.com
Subject: Re: echo $HOME returns /cygdrive/c/documents and setting/mrane
Date: Thu, 06 May 2004 13:27:00 -0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <Pine.GSO.4.56.0405060923290.1835@slinky.cs.nyu.edu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4099FBD9.6060408@x-ray.at>
On Thu, 6 May 2004, Reini Urban wrote:
> Montana Rane schrieb:
> > for the administrative user, under which cygwin was installed, echo $HOME
> > returns /home/Administrator.
>
> This is not your problem. Please describe the problem in the message
> body and not only in the subject.
>
> > I need to set up cygwin so it does not preface the path with /cygdrive/c as
> > this breaks our existing scripts.
>
> You scripts most likely don't brake because of the /cygdrive/c/ prefix,
> they break because of the space in the pathname.
>
> Solution:
> Link it under your cygwin tree and fix the appropriate passwd entries.
>
> untested script to get the idea:
> mkdir /home
> for h in /cygdrive/c/documents\ and\ setting/*; do
> ln -s /cygdrive/c/documents\ and\ setting/$h /home/
^^
Missing quotes here. Should be "$h".
> done
> perl -pi.bak -e's|/cygdrive/c/documents and setting/|/home/|' \
> /etc/passwd
Or 'mount -s c:/Documents\ and\ Settings/ /home', if you don't mind
putting up with '/home/All Users', etc...
Igor
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2004-05-06 13:25 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2004-05-05 22:41 Montana Rane
2004-05-06 1:18 ` Larry Hall
2004-05-06 10:02 ` Reini Urban
2004-05-06 13:27 ` Igor Pechtchanski [this message]
2004-05-06 17:47 ` Reini Urban
2004-05-06 20:19 ` Hannu E K Nevalainen
2004-05-07 17:10 ` Christopher Faylor
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