I am a new cygwin user. I am not able to locate the .profile, .login .bashrc etc bash files, so I can use it to customize bash. I understand from various installation instruction that I red that the HOME env variable needs to be set for this. I followed the instructions given in many cygwin guides and install docs and updated my HOME environment variable both in my Windows system environment variable tab as HOME=C:\Documents and Settings\vshastri
And updated in cygwin.bat as follows before starting the bash shell: @echo off C: chdir C:\cygwin\bin set HOME=C:\Documents and Settings\vshastri bash --login –i
Very bad. HOME is set automatically. First by cygwin and then verified by your /etc/profile if running bash --login.
man BASH => INVOCATION
See the cygwin FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/faq_3.html#SEC37
Then see the various bash beginner guides. http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Bash-Beginners-Guide/html/index.html
And beware of the problem with spaces. esp. in your HOME.
Recommended is make /home/vshastri a symlink or mount to
"C:\Documents and Settings\vshastri", so you don't have to deal with the space in your HOME.
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Reini Urban
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