echo $HOME returns /cygdrive/c/documents and setting/mrane

[Reini Urban]

Montana Rane schrieb:
> for the administrative user, under which cygwin was installed, echo $HOME 
> returns /home/Administrator.

This is not your problem. Please describe the problem in the message 
body and not only in the subject.

> I need to set up cygwin so it does not preface the path with /cygdrive/c as 
> this breaks our existing scripts.

You scripts most likely don't brake because of the /cygdrive/c/ prefix, 
they break because of the space in the pathname.

Solution:
Link it under your cygwin tree and fix the appropriate passwd entries.

untested script to get the idea:
mkdir /home
for h in /cygdrive/c/documents\ and\ setting/*; do
   ln -s /cygdrive/c/documents\ and\ setting/$h /home/
done
perl -pi.bak -e's|/cygdrive/c/documents and setting/|/home/|' \
      /etc/passwd

-- 
Reini Urban
http://xarch.tu-graz.ac.at/home/rurban/


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