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Date:	Mon, 31 Jan 2005 15:00:36 +0100
From:	Reini Urban <rurban AT x-ray DOT at>
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To:	vshastri AT san DOT rr DOT com
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Subject:	Re: customizing bash
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vshastri AT san DOT rr DOT com schrieb:
>   I am a new cygwin user. I am not able to locate the .profile, .login .bashrc etc bash files, so I can use it to customize bash. I understand from various installation instruction that I red that the HOME env variable needs to be set for this.  I followed the instructions given in many cygwin guides and install docs and updated my HOME environment variable both in my Windows system environment variable tab as
> HOME=C:\Documents and Settings\vshastri
> 
> And updated in cygwin.bat as follows before starting the bash shell:
> @echo off
> C:
> chdir C:\cygwin\bin
> set HOME=C:\Documents and Settings\vshastri
> bash --login –i

Very bad. HOME is set automatically.
First by cygwin and then verified by your /etc/profile
if running bash --login.

man BASH => INVOCATION

See the cygwin FAQ:
   http://cygwin.com/faq/faq_3.html#SEC37

Then see the various bash beginner guides.
   http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Bash-Beginners-Guide/html/index.html

And beware of the problem with spaces. esp. in your HOME.
Recommended is make /home/vshastri a symlink or mount to
"C:\Documents and Settings\vshastri", so you don't have to deal with the 
space in your HOME.
-- 
Reini Urban
http://xarch.tu-graz.ac.at/home/rurban/

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