chere not seeing my preferred $HOME

Marco Atzeri marco.atzeri@gmail.com
Thu Jun 30 21:19:00 GMT 2016



On 30/06/2016 21:55, Nellis, Kenneth wrote:
> From: Rainer Blome
>>
>> Hi Kenneth,
>
> Hello. http://www.cygwin.com/acronyms/#PCYMTNQREAIYR
> (Actually, I don't know how to do that, so I do it manually.)
>
>> not sure what you are aiming for here.
>
> I simply want chere to run my .profile before it presents
> me with the bash prompt.
>
>> The purpose of `chere` is, quoting from its help,
>> to "to right click a folder in Windows Explorer and
>> open a Cygwin shell *in that folder*."
>>
>> Your `.bash_profile` should run in whatever directory
>> it is called from. To refer to a file in your $HOME,
>> explicitly do so (by prefixing any path with $HOME).
>
> I guess the problem is knowing how to tell chere what
> my Cygwin $HOME is.
>


https://cygwin.com/cygwin-ug-net/ntsec.html#ntsec-mapping-nsswitch-home

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