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From: "Elfyn McBratney" <elfyn-cygwin AT exposure DOT org DOT uk>
To: "cygwin" <cygwin AT cygwin DOT com>,
   "David Christensen" <dpchrist AT holgerdanske DOT com>
References: <010201c2c505$e6e52340$0b01a8c0 AT w2k30g>
Subject: Re: Cygwin 1.3.19 Windows 2000 Professional SP3 bash $home /usr/bin/%USERPROFILE%
Date: Sun, 26 Jan 2003 07:04:58 -0000
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> 1.  Cygwin Bash reports the present working directory as:
>
>         dpchrist AT w2k30g ~
>         $ pwd
>         /usr/bin/%USERPROFILE%
>
> 2.  Yet Windows Explorer does not show any folder named "bin", much less
> "bin\%USERPROFILE%" under "C:\cygwin\usr".

The usr/bin or usr\bin folder is normally created when you first install
(via setup) and is a cross-mount to /bin in cygwin as is /lib and /usr/lib .

>
> 3.  Neither does Bash:
>
>         dpchrist AT w2k30g ~
>         $ ls /usr
>         doc  etc  include  info  local  man  sbin  share  src  ssl  tmp
var

Now the fact that you don't have a lib dir too is puzzling :/ It's not
really a problem as such all you need to do is create a bin and lib dir in
/usr (c:\cygwin\usr).

>
> 4.  There is a folder named "%USERPROFILE%" under "C:\cygwin\bin", and
> it contains the file ".bash_history".
>
> 5.  I can cd into /bin and into /usr/bin, and end up in the same place.
>
> I think Cygwin is cheating -- e.g. there is a hidden link from /usr/bin
> to /bin (?).

What there is, is two physical dirs c:\cygwin\bin and c:\cygwin\usr\bin .
One of these (c:\cygwin\bin) contains all of your programs, dlls and such
with the other (c:\cygwin\usr\bin) being empty. This is because /usr/bin
(c:\cygwin\usr\bin) is mounted as c:\cygwin\bin (/bin). I've been all round
the house's with this so hope I haven't made you loose the plot with this
one ;-)

> Regarding Bash not starting up in my home directory, a quick and dirty
> work-around is to create a file ".bash_profile" under
> "C:\cygwin\bin\%USERPROFILE%" with contents as follows:
>
>         export HOME=/home/$USER
>
>         cd $HOME
>         . .bash_profile

An even quicker and dirtier trick would be to edit your /etc/profile to
exclusively set up the HOME environment variable. That way it's going to be
set and you'll find yourself in your home directory when you start bash.

>
> I would still prefer that Cygwin Bash work correctly from a clean
> install.

It does for some :-)


Regards,

Elfyn McBratney
elfyn AT exposure DOT org DOT uk
www.exposure.org.uk




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