X-Recipient: archive-cygwin@delorie.com X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Message-ID: <4900F608.1050200@veritech.com> Date: Thu, 23 Oct 2008 18:09:12 -0400 From: "Lee D.Rothstein" Reply-To: lee@veritech.com User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.17 (Windows/20080914) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: A $ in my path... References: <20132275.post@talk.nabble.com> <20135109.post@talk.nabble.com> In-Reply-To: <20135109.post@talk.nabble.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Bogosity: Ham, tests=bogofilter, spamicity=0.000016, version=1.0.1 X-IsSubscribed: yes Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm List-Id: 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 ProblematicRoutes wrote: > Mark J. Reed wrote: > >> On Thu, Oct 23, 2008 at 10:34 AM, ProblematicRoutes wrote: >> >> This $ sign causes problems everywhere - with latex, with svn, with >>> anything >>> that uses ~ to refer to my home directory, because it expands to ...$/... >>> and bash tries to parse the $/ as a variable. >>> >> But the workaround, if you have the privileges to do it, would be to >> make a $-less symbolic link and change your passwd entry to >> > > I will try yours and Sid's solutions tomorrow (I think they're the same > idea? Correct me if I've misunderstood your suggestion!) when I'm back in > the office, and hopefully they will fix the problem. > > Andrew > If shortcuts don't work, here's two other ideas: * Cygwin mount -- mount a sane path to the problematic path * NTFS junction point (like a *ux soft link) -- junction a sane path to the problematic path -- 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/