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I installed Cygwin yesterday and when I run it and look at "pwd" my path is set to: /cygdrive/h
I read the FAQ and when I type "set HOME" from a Windows CLI, it is set to: HOME=H:\
I am using Cygwin for PERL.
I just took a PERL course and in class Cygwin was configured for: /usr/bin/perl
This was perfect because I could make my SheBang look like: #!/usr/bin/perl
I would like to do that again with the Cygwin I installed myself yesterday.
I did modify /etc/passwd. The last line had: ...:/cygdrive/h:/bin/bash and I changed it to: ...:/usr/bin/perl:/bin/bash
But when I open a new Cygwin session it remembers the old /cygdrive/h
The HOME variable takes precedence over /etc/passwd, hence you need to either unset it or set it to the location you want before invoking bash. It's likely set in the System Properties. The exact location depends on the Windows version, but it's something like Computer->Context Menu->Properties->Advanced->Environment Variables.
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