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From: Benoit Rochefort <Benoit DOT Rochefort AT gerad DOT ca>
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Date: Tue, 5 Feb 2002 16:11:35 -0500 (EST)
To: "Laurence F. Wood" <LaurenceWood AT sunyatasystems DOT com>
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Subject: Re: $HOME Directory Relocation
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Laurence F. Wood writes:
| Hello,
| 
| I needed to relocate the $HOME directory to another disk volume.  Under
| linux the login process sets this.  Who/what sets $HOME under cygwin?

Since no login occurs, place it in your batch file calling bash, or in
/etc/profile like I do. Here is my /etc/profile that correct many such
environment variable problems I found over the time:

###############################################################################
# File:   /etc/profile
# Author: Benoit Rochefort

# This file is only executed at login time!
# Be sure to include both the "--login" and the "-i" options to bash in
# your batch file calling bash in order to have this file sourced.

# Note that CYGWIN environment variable must be set before starting
# bash via the batch file and not here!!!

unset DOSDRIVE
unset DOSDIR
unset TMPDIR
unset TMP

PATH="/usr/local/bin:/usr/bin:/bin${PATH:+:$PATH}:."
MANPATH="/usr/local/man:/usr/man"
export PATH MANPATH

: ${LOGNAME:=${USER:=${USERNAME:=`/usr/bin/id -un`}}}
USER="$LOGNAME"
HOME="/home/$USER"
export LOGNAME USER HOME

MAKE_MODE=unix
export MAKE_MODE

PS1='[\u]\w>'
HISTFILE="$HOME/.bash_history"

cd $HOME 2>/dev/null || cd / 2>/dev/null

###############################################################################

Please consult the man page to know exactly when this file is invoked (for
most user, it is always on Windows).

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