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From: "Ronald Landheer" <info AT rlsystems DOT net>
To: "Jordan Halsey" <jhalsey AT wt DOT net>, "cgwin_list" <cygwin AT sources DOT redhat DOT com>
Subject: RE: Home variable question
Date: Tue, 2 Oct 2001 01:00:43 +0200
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Have a look at /etc/profile - it should contain what you're looking for.

Greetz!

Ronald

> -----Original Message-----
> From: cygwin-owner AT sources DOT redhat DOT com
> [mailto:cygwin-owner AT sources DOT redhat DOT com]On Behalf Of Jordan Halsey
> Sent: Monday, October 01, 2001 4:37 PM
> To: cgwin_list
> Subject: Home variable question
>
>
>
> ------ Forwarded Message
> 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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