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Dexter_Michael AT emc DOT com wrote: > I think you hit the nail on the head. Apparently yesterday when I > entered the path /usr/bin/perl somewhere, Cygwin decided to create a > perl directory and automatically put profile files into the directory > it created. > > .bash_history > .bash_profile > .bashrc > .inputrc Well remember, you started out trying to make Perl your home. That was a foolish thing to try. I don't know why you thought that was something you wanted to do. You actually set your home directory to /usr/bin/perl and Cygwin dutifully said, when starting up bash, "The user's home directory is <X>. Hmmm... that directory doesn't exist! I'll be nice and create one. Oh and let's put in there some skeleton like start up scripts...". > I moved the "perl" directory out of /usr/bin and the SheBang > /usr/bin/perl began working. Great, now do "rm -rf <dir>" where <dir> is the path to where you moved that Perl directory to. You don't need that any more. That was a mistake. > As for my path statement I will be trimming that down right next. > > If I emailed anyone directly using this forum that was not my > intention. I always meant to hit -reply-to-all- so sorry if you got > mail directly from me by mistake. I don't think reply-to-all is what you wanted to use. I'm not sure however as I don't use a mailing list rather I use a news server (gmane.org) which translates this mailing list into a Usenet style news group, which I prefer. -- Andrew DeFaria <http://defaria.com> Always try to be modest. And be damn proud of it! -- 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
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