Changing HOME for PERL

[Larry Hall (Cygwin)]

On 08/27/2009 09:49 PM, Andrew DeFaria wrote:
> Dexter_Michael wrote:
>> I think you hit the nail on the head. Apparently yesterday when I
>> entered the path /usr/bin/perl somewhere, Cygwin decided to create a
>> perl directory and automatically put profile files into the directory
>> it created.
>>
>> .bash_history
>> .bash_profile
>> .bashrc
>> .inputrc
> Well remember, you started out trying to make Perl your home. That was a
> foolish thing to try. I don't know why you thought that was something
> you wanted to do. You actually set your home directory to /usr/bin/perl
> and Cygwin dutifully said, when starting up bash, "The user's home
> directory is <X>. Hmmm... that directory doesn't exist! I'll be nice and
> create one. Oh and let's put in there some skeleton like start up
> scripts...".

Yes, I believe that's been pointed out already.  It would be fair to say
your response fills in a few more details, though it might be a tad more
insulting.  To each his own I always say.

>> I moved the "perl" directory out of /usr/bin and the SheBang
>> /usr/bin/perl began working.
> Great, now do "rm -rf <dir>" where <dir> is the path to where you moved
> that Perl directory to. You don't need that any more. That was a mistake.
>> As for my path statement I will be trimming that down right next.
>>
>> If I emailed anyone directly using this forum that was not my
>> intention. I always meant to hit -reply-to-all- so sorry if you got
>> mail directly from me by mistake.
> I don't think reply-to-all is what you wanted to use. I'm not sure
> however as I don't use a mailing list rather I use a news server
> (gmane.org) which translates this mailing list into a Usenet style news
> group, which I prefer.

It's great that you like the newsgroup format and that Gmane offers Cygwin's
mail lists as a newsgroups.  But "Reply to All" is indeed a common reply
option on email clients and will reply to the list unless the sender has
requested otherwise.  So unless I'm misunderstanding the OP, this is
exactly his intent.

Have we arrived at the end of the thread yet?

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A: Yes.
 > Q: Are you sure?
 >> A: Because it reverses the logical flow of conversation.
 >>> Q: Why is top posting annoying in email?

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