Re: A $ in my path...

["Mark J. Reed" <markjreed at gmail dot com>]

Sid Manning> Would this work?
SM> cd /home
SM> ln -s $HOME/csmith
SM> cd csmith
SM> export HOME=`pwd`

Problematic Routes> This worked nicely, and so I've added it to my
.bashrc - thanks!

I recommend protecting it to avoid repeating the process and getting
broken links; this should work (and also leaves $HOME alone if any of
the steps fail):

case "$HOME" in
   *$*)  cd /home &&  ln -s "$HOME" ./csmith && cd ./csmith && HOME="${PWD}";;
esac





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