From: sos@prospect.com.ru (Sergey Okhapkin) Subject: RE: Bash history? 7 Sep 1997 21:23:37 -0700 Approved: cygnus.gnu-win32@cygnus.com Distribution: cygnus Message-ID: <01BCBB7D.8A42F000.cygnus.gnu-win32@sos> Original-To: "gnu-win32@cygnus.com" , "'Andy Piper'" Encoding: 18 TEXT Original-Sender: owner-gnu-win32@cygnus.com Andy Piper wrote: > 1) ~ seems to be interpreted wrongly. If I do `cd ~' I get: > bash.exe: C:WINNTProfilesandyp: No such file or directory > cd $HOME works fine. Somehow the /'s are getting stripped out. I'm sure, there are backslashes instead of slashes in your HOME env. var. Set HOME to c:/WINNT/Profiles/andyp. > > 2) History is not preserved between sessions. Although bash > writes out a history file - .bash_history - correctly. It is not read when Fix the first problem, and the second one should came out. -- Sergey Okhapkin, http://www.lexa.ru/sos Moscow, Russia Looking for a job - For help on using this list (especially unsubscribing), send a message to "gnu-win32-request@cygnus.com" with one line of text: "help".