Gustavo Seabra <gustavo.seabra <at> gmail.com> writes: > Hi all, > > I was wondering if it is possible to use the windows folder "My > Documents" or even "C:\Documents and Settings\USERNAME" (or some dir > inside those) as the hoe directory in Cygwin. I though about > substituting the user directory inside /home by a symlink to one of the > above. Is there any reason that wouldn't work? Is there a better way to > do it? > > The reason I am thinking about it is just practical: I want to have all > my files (Windows or Cygwin) under one root. > > Thanks a lot > > Gustavo.
Yes, you can do this. I've done this for years by putting "/cygdrive/c/Documents and Settings/ericjb/My Documents" into /etc/passwd. This works well, though every once in awhile you might find a shell script which doesn't correctly handle spaces in paths. (Such a script is broken, and should be fixed.) I can't even remember the last time I ran into that though, most scripts don't use $HOME. -- Eric -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/
