This is the mail archive of the
cygwin
mailing list for the Cygwin project.
$USER is not resolved in paths sometimes
- From: Thomas Deinhamer <thasmo at gmail dot com>
- To: cygwin at cygwin dot com
- Date: Fri, 22 Feb 2013 22:53:30 +0100
- Subject: $USER is not resolved in paths sometimes
Hello folks,
I'm new to Cygwin, new to this newsgroup too. ;)
I'm running Cygwin and using the zsh shell.
In the .zshrc file I got these lines:
alias vboxmanage=VBoxManage
vboxmanage setproperty machinefolder "C:\Users\$USER\VirtualBox VMs\"
When I try to boot a VM using vagrant (which
uses vboxmanage internally I think) sometimes
$USER is not resolved to the real username.
Instead vboxmanage creates a new machinefolder
on C:/ which is then called "Users$USER" and
inside this folder there is the folder "VirtualBox VMs",
so the wrong path is "C:\Users$USER\VirtualBox VMs\".
How could that be? Sometimes it works, sometimes it doesn't.
Do I need to escape the backslashes or is
there anything else I need to take care of?
I'm wondering why it only fails sometimes.
Thanks a lot,
Thomas
--
Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html
FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/
Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html
Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple