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Date: Tue, 30 Nov 2004 12:37:44 -0500 (EST)
From: "William R. Knox" <wknox AT mitre DOT org>
To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com
Subject: Patch to /etc/profile to deal with $HOME with a space
Message-ID: <Pine.GSO.4.58.0411301227340.2020@orne>
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I have just set up Cygwin, and noticed that my default home was under my
"Documents and Settings" directory (not yet having run mkpasswd). However,
the /etc/profile setup which tries to only create the warning message
about running mkpasswd and mkgroup once can't deal with a HOME environment
variable with a space in it. Here is a patch to allow that to work:

--- /etc/profile    2004-11-26 14:53:34.477082000 -0500
+++ /etc/profile    2004-11-30 11:22:32.175340300 -0500
@@ -194,10 +194,10 @@
   echo "and can be safely ignored."

   # only display the above once
-  cp -f /etc/group ${HOME}/group.mkgroup_l_d \
+  cp -f /etc/group "${HOME}/group.mkgroup_l_d" \
   && ( [ -w /etc/group ] || chmod --silent a+w /etc/group ; )\
-  && sed -e 's/^mkgroup_l_d/mkgroup-l-d/' ${HOME}/group.mkgroup_l_d > /etc/grou
p \
+  && sed -e 's/^mkgroup_l_d/mkgroup-l-d/' "${HOME}/group.mkgroup_l_d" > /etc/gr
oup \
   && chmod --silent --reference=/etc/passwd /etc/group
-  rm -f ${HOME}/group.mkgroup_l_d
+  rm -f "${HOME}/group.mkgroup_l_d"
   ;;
 esac

			Bill Knox
			Lead Operating Systems Programmer/Analyst
			The MITRE Corporation

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