On Feb 18, 2008 9:46 AM, Dave Korn <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On 18 February 2008 14:34, Glen Mazza wrote: > > > Hello, > > > > I looked in the FAQ and could not find the answer to this question, so > > am asking here. Whenever I start cygwin, I need to cd several levels > > down to the only directory that I care about when using cygwin. How > > can I get cygwin to start in this particular directory by > > default...i.e., each time I start Cygwin it will be in that directory > > already? Cygwin seems to ignore the "Start In: " option in the > > Windows Preferences for this application. > > Well not exactly, the problem is twofold: > > 1. When you double-click the cygwin icon, you're invoking a batch file, > Cygwin.bat, which has the job of starting up bash, and the first thing it does > is change directory. So cygwin doesn't "ignore" the "start in" option, but > straight away changes to somewhere else (the /bin dir) anyway. > > 2. When your bash shell is launched, it changes to your $HOME dir anyway. > > Your simplest bet is probably to add "cd <whereever>" as the last line of > ~/.bashrc. >
Do you mean cygwin.bat? I'm using Windows, so I don't think I have a ~/.bashrc file. Glen -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/
