change opening path

Larry Hall lh-no-personal-replies-please@cygwin.com
Wed Sep 1 19:00:00 GMT 2004


At 12:41 PM 9/1/2004, you wrote:
>When I open the shell and check the path (pwd) it's reply is
>/cygdrive/h. The H drive is my home drive at work. To get to the C drive
>(cygdrive/c) I have to cd. 
>How do I change the opening path from H to C permanently?


Set your home path in '/etc/passwd' to the directory you want.  Edit the 
file directly or just use 'mkpasswd -p'.




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