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Re: echo $HOME returns /cygdrive/c/documents and setting/mrane


Igor Pechtchanski schrieb:
On Thu, 6 May 2004, Reini Urban wrote:
Montana Rane schrieb:
for the administrative user, under which cygwin was installed, echo $HOME
returns /home/Administrator.

This is not your problem. Please describe the problem in the message body and not only in the subject.


I need to set up cygwin so it does not preface the path with /cygdrive/c as
this breaks our existing scripts.

You scripts most likely don't brake because of the /cygdrive/c/ prefix, they break because of the space in the pathname.

Solution:
Link it under your cygwin tree and fix the appropriate passwd entries.

untested script to get the idea:
mkdir /home
for h in /cygdrive/c/documents\ and\ setting/*; do
  ln -s /cygdrive/c/documents\ and\ setting/$h /home/

^^ Missing quotes here. Should be "$h".


done
perl -pi.bak -e's|/cygdrive/c/documents and setting/|/home/|' \
     /etc/passwd


Or 'mount -s c:/Documents\ and\ Settings/ /home', if you don't mind
putting up with '/home/All Users', etc...

Sure, mount is the method which is used more often. And it is faster and easier. But it is not as transparent to the poor end-user as the symlinks. He will not see /home when doing "ls /"

And with
HOME = C:/Dokumente\ und\ Einstellungen/Someuser/Eigene\ Dateien
it's much easier to administrate with symlinks also.
--
Reini Urban
http://xarch.tu-graz.ac.at/home/rurban/


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