From: Rainer Blome > > Hi Kenneth, Hello. http://www.cygwin.com/acronyms/#PCYMTNQREAIYR (Actually, I don't know how to do that, so I do it manually.) > not sure what you are aiming for here.
I simply want chere to run my .profile before it presents me with the bash prompt. > The purpose of `chere` is, quoting from its help, > to "to right click a folder in Windows Explorer and > open a Cygwin shell *in that folder*." > > Your `.bash_profile` should run in whatever directory > it is called from. To refer to a file in your $HOME, > explicitly do so (by prefixing any path with $HOME). I guess the problem is knowing how to tell chere what my Cygwin $HOME is. > > Hoping I can keep the two domains separate. > > What kind of domains do you mean? > > > chere> echo $HOME; cygpath -w $HOME > > /cygdrive/c/Users/KNellis > > C:\Users\KNellis Using the word "domain" generically, there is my Windows domain ($HOME is C:\Users\KNellis) and my Cygwin domain ($HOME is C:\cygwin\home\knellis). chere appears to be using my Windows domain, which doesn't have a .bash_profile, but I'd like it to use my Cygwin domain. > How come you have differing values for $HOME in some contexts? Different domains. > Do you have two separate Cygwin installs? No. > Two home directories? Yes, a Windows home and a Cygwin home, as demonstrated. > Where does the "chere" prompt stem from? Just for this posting I manually entered: PS1='chere> ' --Ken Nellis
