Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@cygwin.com Message-ID: <4099FBD9.6060408@x-ray.at> Date: Thu, 06 May 2004 10:48:25 +0200 From: Reini Urban User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; de-AT; rv:1.7b) Gecko/20040421 MultiZilla/1.5.0.4h MIME-Version: 1.0 To: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: echo $HOME returns /cygdrive/c/documents and setting/mrane References: In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 2.63 (2004-01-11) on hornet.mur.at X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, hits=0.0 required=5.0 tests=none autolearn=no version=2.63 X-IsSubscribed: yes 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/ done perl -pi.bak -e's|/cygdrive/c/documents and setting/|/home/|' \ /etc/passwd -- Reini Urban http://xarch.tu-graz.ac.at/home/rurban/ -- 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/