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Date: Thu, 6 May 2004 09:25:34 -0400 (EDT)
From: Igor Pechtchanski <pechtcha AT cs DOT nyu DOT edu>
Reply-To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com
To: Reini Urban <rurban AT x-ray DOT at>
cc: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com
Subject: Re: echo $HOME returns /cygdrive/c/documents and setting/mrane
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On Thu, 6 May 2004, Reini Urban wrote:

> Montana Rane schrieb:
> > for the administrative user, under which cygwin was installed, echo $HOME
> > returns /home/Administrator.
>
> This is not your problem. Please describe the problem in the message
> body and not only in the subject.
>
> > I need to set up cygwin so it does not preface the path with /cygdrive/c as
> > this breaks our existing scripts.
>
> You scripts most likely don't brake because of the /cygdrive/c/ prefix,
> they break because of the space in the pathname.
>
> Solution:
> Link it under your cygwin tree and fix the appropriate passwd entries.
>
> untested script to get the idea:
> mkdir /home
> for h in /cygdrive/c/documents\ and\ setting/*; do
>    ln -s /cygdrive/c/documents\ and\ setting/$h /home/
                                               ^^
Missing quotes here.  Should be "$h".

> done
> perl -pi.bak -e's|/cygdrive/c/documents and setting/|/home/|' \
>       /etc/passwd

Or 'mount -s c:/Documents\ and\ Settings/ /home', if you don't mind
putting up with '/home/All Users', etc...
	Igor
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