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Date: Mon, 01 Oct 2001 07:36:41 -0700
Subject:  Home variable question
From: Jordan Halsey <jhalsey AT wt DOT net>
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From: Jordan Halsey <jhalsey AT wt DOT net>
Date: Fri, 28 Sep 2001 08:06:05 -0700
To: <tag AT ibis DOT odessa DOT ua>
Subject: Home variable question

As someone suggested I set my home home variable to

HOME=C:/cygwin/home/$USER

Which allowed the shell to address the individual user but also created a
folder called $USER in my c:/cygwin/home directory where it expected to find
my .bash_profile which instead resides in the individual users dir. The end
result is that bash doesn't read in any of my settings or aliases unless I
move my .bash_profile into ~/$USER allowing me only one .bash_profile. So my
question is how can I set my HOME variable so that bash will know what user
is logged on and also source the correct .bash_profile? Is it possible that
I could put something like username.bash_profile into the folder $USER and
store all profiles here?

Sorry if this is basic but I am just getting the hang of this.


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Jordan Halsey
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