home dir in cygwin

Bruce Dawson jbd at codemeta.com
Thu Feb 6 13:56:07 EST 2003


> How does one go about specifying an alternate home directory in Cygwin? 
>    Right now, ~ == / and I'd rather it be /cygdrive/d/User\ Profiles/eprice

export HOME="/cygdrive/d/User Profiles/eprice"

The above establishes your home directory - there really is no "alternate home"
directory in Unix (that I'm aware of).

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