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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!


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