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Home directories and spaces
- From: Tim Largy <largy at myrealbox dot com>
- To: cygwin at cygwin dot com
- Date: Sun, 16 Mar 2003 01:52:24 -0500
- Subject: Home directories and spaces
Hi,
I installed the cygwin distribution (February 14) on Windows XP and am
having trouble with spaces my home directory "/cygwin/c/Documents and
Settings/largy". For example, when I run the command "startx" at the
bash prompt I get:
[: and: unknown operand
[: and: unknown operand
export: Settings/largy/.Xauthority: bad variable name
cat: /cygdrive/c/Documents: No such file or directory
[: and: unknown operand
[: and: unknown operand
The X server does start, but I'd rather not see these error
messages--obviously something is wrong. What are most people using as
their home directories, and from the multitudinous ways of setting it,
what is the preferred method?
Part II
Once the X server starts, the xterms in my session display this prompt:
\[\033]0;\w\007
\033[32m\]\u at \h \[\033[33m\w\033[0m\]
Somehow the PS1 environment variable is screwed up. How should I set it?
Tim
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