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bash and ~
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- Subject: bash and ~
- From: karipid at mae dot cornell dot edu (Daniel Karipides)
- Date: Mon, 23 Feb 1998 10:46:06 -0500
I tried to check the archives for this, but couldn't find any mention
of the following problem.
I have defined the enivornment variable $HOME to:
D:\Users\smith
I need it defined this way so that emacs (among other programs) works
correctly when not started from bash. However, in bash I noticed the
following:
bash$ echo $HOME
D:\Users\smith <--seems to work
bash$ cd ~
bash.exe: D:Userssmith: No such file or directory
It seems that the \'s have been removed, which I guess makes sense
under bash. Changing HOME to D:\\Users\\smith works for ~, but
unfortunately doesn't work for emacs outside of bash, etc...
I apologize if this is a problem with a well known solution, but I
couldn't find it mentioned on any of bash/cygwin set up web pages.
Thanks in advance,
-Dan Karipides
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