Re: set HOME environment

[Earnie Boyd <earnie_boyd at yahoo dot com>]

*You* modify *your* /etc/profile to put quotes in the HOME variable.

HOME=\"/home/$USER\"

Cheers,
Earnie.

--- Guansong Zhang <guansong@hotmail.com> wrote:
> I put an echo $HOME before it is used in /etc/profile
> and found the result is
> 
> /cygdrive/e/Documents and Settings/zgs
> 
> it did not put any back slash before a space.
> 
> It should be a problem in algorithm to convert dir format in bash. I think
> you can reproduce the problem by set your HOME as a dir with a space in its
> name.
> 
> Regards,
> 
> Guansong
> 
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Earnie Boyd" <earnie_boyd@yahoo.com>
> To: "Guansong Zhang" <guansong@hotmail.com>
> Cc: "cygwin users" <cygwin@sourceware.cygnus.com>
> Sent: Wednesday, September 13, 2000 8:14 AM
> Subject: Re: set HOME environment
> 
> 
> > --- Guansong Zhang <guansong@hotmail.com> wrote:
> > > I quoted as
> > >
> > > set HOME="%USERPROFILE%"
> > >
> > > but it does not help.
> > >
> > > Besides, HOME is an environment in DOS, right? at least in previous
> cygwin
> > > version. This works before, only when I add
> > >
> > > --login -i
> > >
> > > as bash arguments. The problem comes. The new system seems specify the
> > > /home/$USER as the default home.
> > >
> >
> > See the /etc/profile file.  It modifies these variables when --login is
> used.
> >
> > Cheers,
> >
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