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Date: Wed, 13 Sep 2000 06:39:56 -0700 (PDT)
From: Earnie Boyd <earnie_boyd AT yahoo DOT com>
Subject: Re: set HOME environment
To: Guansong Zhang <guansong AT hotmail DOT com>, cygwin AT sources DOT redhat DOT com
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--- Guansong Zhang <guansong AT hotmail DOT com> wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I used to used the following line to set HOME and CYGWIN in bash.bat
> 
> set HOME=%USERPROFILE%
> set CYGWIN=tty ntea
> 
> So I don't need to use mouse click to change env
> 
> I don't know when bash.bat is changed to use --login -i
> 
> but it will be a problem if my system dir is not C: it seems bash can not
> set the HOME in this case.
> 
> I modify the bat to this, (in this case e: is my system drive)
> 
> @echo off
> 
> set HOME=%USERPROFILE%
> set CYGWIN=tty ntea
> 
> rem e:
> rem chdir \cygwin\bin
> 
> chdir /d %USERPROFILE%
> 
> e:\cygwin\bin\bash --login -i
> 
> I still get
> 
> [: too many arguments
> bash: cd: /cygdrive/e/Documents: No such file or directory
> 
> As error message. but everything else seems OK. Hope no one need to do this
> change next time.
> 

This appears to be the problem of having white space in your variables.  Make
sure the values are quoted.  See the archives for further discussions.

Is this FAQed yet?

Cheers,

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