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Re: How does one set aliases for Cygwin for XP Prof Windows - Still doesn't work! HELP!
- From: Eric Blake <ebb9 at byu dot net>
- To: Kazuyuki Hagiwara <hagiwara at zuken dot co dot jp>
- Cc: cygwin at cygwin dot com
- Date: Mon, 25 Jul 2005 06:36:09 -0600
- Subject: Re: How does one set aliases for Cygwin for XP Prof Windows - Still doesn't work! HELP!
- References: <GGEDKDOBJHJHBKEJFPFKGENFEFAA.hagiwara@zuken.co.jp>
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According to Kazuyuki Hagiwara on 7/24/2005 10:25 PM:
> Patrick,
> Probably you have to change the HOME environment variable.
> like
> HOME=/cygdrive/c/users/shoreuser
>
> The space character in HOME might cause the problem.
Bash uses tilde-expansion to find ~/.bashrc, where ~ expands to the
contents of HOME. But I just checked, and POSIX requires that the space
character be preserved and not split words when it is the result of tilde
expansion. Every shell I tried (except ash, which doesn't do tilde
expansion) does the correct thing here:
$ bash -c 'HOME="two spaces"; echo ~'
two spaces
That said, I think Larry's advice is the best - re-read
/etc/defaults/etc/profile to determine how HOME is set when bash first
starts up, re-read the bash man page to determine which files bash sources
on startup, and attach the output of cygcheck -svr if you want further
diagnosis (such as you are using an older version of bash).
- --
Life is short - so eat dessert first!
Eric Blake ebb9@byu.net
volunteer cygwin bash maintainer
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