/etc/profile always does a "cd $HOME"
Sven Köhler
skoehler@upb.de
Tue May 24 11:47:00 GMT 2005
>>>>i'd like to use cygwin from a normal windows-app. The problem is, that i
>>>>need a login-shell, so that all environment-vars are properly set. The
>>>>problem: bash -li always changes the current workdir!
>>
>>The point was "a flly functional" environment, and just adding /bin to
>>the PATH is only half the things, i'd need to do.
>
> If you have a recent* /etc/profile from base-files, pretend you're chere. From a
> batch file:
>
> set CHERE_INVOKING=y
> bash -li <somecommand>
> set CHERE_INVOKING=
>
> From a sh script:
>
> CHERE_INVOKING=y && bash -li <somecommand>
The file in /etc/defaults/etc/profile has this CHERE_INVOKING thing, but
for some reason, that file wasn't copied to /etc/profile.
Can you imagine why?
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