Re: A $ in my path...

2008-10-24 Thread Mark J. Reed
Sid Manning> Would this work? SM> cd /home SM> ln -s $HOME/csmith SM> cd csmith SM> export HOME=`pwd` Problematic Routes> This worked nicely, and so I've added it to my .bashrc - thanks! I recommend protecting it to avoid repeating the process and getting broken links; this should work (and also

RE: A $ in my path...

2008-10-24 Thread ProblematicRoutes
>> -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.

Re: A $ in my path...

2008-10-23 Thread Lee D.Rothstein
ProblematicRoutes wrote: Mark J. Reed wrote: On Thu, Oct 23, 2008 at 10:34 AM, ProblematicRoutes wrote: 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 $/ a

Re: A $ in my path...

2008-10-23 Thread ProblematicRoutes
Mark J. Reed wrote: > > On Thu, Oct 23, 2008 at 10:34 AM, ProblematicRoutes wrote: >> $ 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

Re: A $ in my path...

2008-10-23 Thread Mark J. Reed
On Thu, Oct 23, 2008 at 10:34 AM, ProblematicRoutes wrote: > $ 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 vari

RE: A $ in my path...

2008-10-23 Thread Manning, Sid
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