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Date: Thu, 23 Oct 2008 07:55:39 -0700
Subject: RE: A $ in my path...
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Would this work?
cd /home
ln -s $HOME/csmith
cd csmith
export HOME=`pwd`


> -----Original Message-----
> From: cygwin-owner AT cygwin DOT com [mailto:cygwin-owner AT cygwin DOT com] On Behalf
> Of ProblematicRoutes
> Sent: Thursday, October 23, 2008 9:34 AM
> To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com
> Subject: A $ in my path...
> 
> 
> Hello all,
> 
> I have just had my work system set upto use cygwin. Unfortunately, my home
> directory and all other directories which are mapped to network stores and
> properly backed up have a $ sign in their path:
> 
> $ pwd
> //sbs01/students_home$/csmith
> 
> This $ sign causes problems everywhere - with latex, with svn, with
> anything
> that uses ~ to refer to my home directory, because it expands to ...$/...
> and bash tries to parse the $/ as a variable.
> 
> Does anyone know how to change this or hide this? It may only be a problem
> with pwd and applications which use this because, e.g., when I'm in /
> (which
> is C:\cygwin) and I type pwd I get "/" as the result.
> 
> Thanks heaps for your help!
> Andrew
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