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Re: set HOME environment
- To: Guansong Zhang <guansong at hotmail dot com>, cygwin at sources dot redhat dot com
- Subject: Re: set HOME environment
- From: Earnie Boyd <earnie_boyd at yahoo dot com>
- Date: Wed, 13 Sep 2000 06:39:56 -0700 (PDT)
--- Guansong Zhang <guansong@hotmail.com> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I used to used the following line to set HOME and CYGWIN in bash.bat
>
> set HOME=%USERPROFILE%
> set CYGWIN=tty ntea
>
> So I don't need to use mouse click to change env
>
> I don't know when bash.bat is changed to use --login -i
>
> but it will be a problem if my system dir is not C: it seems bash can not
> set the HOME in this case.
>
> I modify the bat to this, (in this case e: is my system drive)
>
> @echo off
>
> set HOME=%USERPROFILE%
> set CYGWIN=tty ntea
>
> rem e:
> rem chdir \cygwin\bin
>
> chdir /d %USERPROFILE%
>
> e:\cygwin\bin\bash --login -i
>
> I still get
>
> [: too many arguments
> bash: cd: /cygdrive/e/Documents: No such file or directory
>
> As error message. but everything else seems OK. Hope no one need to do this
> change next time.
>
This appears to be the problem of having white space in your variables. Make
sure the values are quoted. See the archives for further discussions.
Is this FAQed yet?
Cheers,
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