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RE: How do I change the default home directory after I fire up cygwin?
Yves wrote:
> Ok, so I changed HOME in Environment variables to C:\cygwin\home\<user name>
> and when I do pwd, this is what happens:
> /cygdrive/c/cygwin/home/<user name>
>
> Ok... it's not /home/<user name>, but it's progress :) .
Delete the HOME environment variable entirely. That way Cygwin will use what's
set in /etc/passwd, ie /home/user.
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