From: lhall@rfk.com (Larry Hall) Subject: Re: Bash history? 8 Sep 1997 20:54:47 -0700 Approved: cygnus.gnu-win32@cygnus.com Distribution: cygnus Message-ID: <2.2.32.19970909000458.0096a8a8.cygnus.gnu-win32@ma.ultranet.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" X-Sender: lhall@ma.ultranet.com X-Mailer: Windows Eudora Pro Version 2.2 (32) Original-To: Andy Piper , gnu-win32@cygnus.com Original-Sender: owner-gnu-win32@cygnus.com At 04:37 PM 9/4/97 +0100, Andy Piper wrote: >Hi, > >I am having a few problems with bash. Any help appreciated: > >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. This is likely due to the fact that you have set HOME in your NT control panel applet to be c:\winnt\Profiles\andyp. ~ is set somewhere during the start up of bash and is set to the value of HOME. In the *nix worlds, \ is an escape and will disappear. The only way I've found around this is to set HOME in the control panel applet to a *nix style path which is my home. Then, ~ gets set correctly and everything works fine. >2) History is not preserved between sessions. Although bash >writes out a history file - .bash_history - correctly. It is not read when >I start a new bash. Nor can it be read manually. This means my history is >always liimited to the current session which is annoying. >This is NT 4 SP3. Mine works OK with this config. Are you using binary or text mounts? Larry - For help on using this list (especially unsubscribing), send a message to "gnu-win32-request@cygnus.com" with one line of text: "help".