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From: | =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Sven_K=F6hler?= <skoehler AT upb DOT de> |
Subject: | Re: /etc/profile always does a "cd $HOME" |
Date: | Tue, 24 May 2005 05:16:29 +0200 |
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>>>>i'd like to use cygwin from a normal windows-app. The problem is, that i >>>>need a login-shell, so that all environment-vars are properly set. The >>>>problem: bash -li always changes the current workdir! >> >>The point was "a flly functional" environment, and just adding /bin to >>the PATH is only half the things, i'd need to do. > > If you have a recent* /etc/profile from base-files, pretend you're chere. From a > batch file: > > set CHERE_INVOKING=y > bash -li <somecommand> > set CHERE_INVOKING= > > From a sh script: > > CHERE_INVOKING=y && bash -li <somecommand> The file in /etc/defaults/etc/profile has this CHERE_INVOKING thing, but for some reason, that file wasn't copied to /etc/profile. Can you imagine why? -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/
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