Would this work? cd /home ln -s $HOME/csmith cd csmith export HOME=`pwd`
> -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf > Of ProblematicRoutes > Sent: Thursday, October 23, 2008 9:34 AM > To: cygwin@cygwin.com > Subject: A $ in my path... > > > Hello all, > > I have just had my work system set upto use cygwin. Unfortunately, my home > directory and all other directories which are mapped to network stores and > properly backed up have a $ sign in their path: > > $ pwd > //sbs01/students_home$/csmith > > This $ sign causes problems everywhere - with latex, with svn, with > anything > that uses ~ to refer to my home directory, because it expands to ...$/... > and bash tries to parse the $/ as a variable. > > Does anyone know how to change this or hide this? It may only be a problem > with pwd and applications which use this because, e.g., when I'm in / > (which > is C:\cygwin) and I type pwd I get "/" as the result. > > Thanks heaps for your help! > Andrew > -- > View this message in context: http://www.nabble.com/A-%24-in-my-path...- > tp20132275p20132275.html > Sent from the Cygwin list mailing list archive at Nabble.com. > > > -- > 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/ -- 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/
