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As I am developing Ruby on Rails on a Windows machine, I need to use cygwin to emulate the Unix command prompt. The problem now is that every time when I open the cygwin terminal, I am brought to this directory C:/cygwin/home/my_user_name instead of the Windows' default user directory C:/Users/my_user_name.
Does anyone know how to make cygwin's default home directory to Windows default C:/Users/my_user_name directory?
I have skimmed through the various solutions provide in Stack Overflow, but none of them works for me, the "mkpasswd" doesn't work either. Does this have something to do with my operating system's version, or maybe something else?
I am using cygwin 1.7.5 and my operating system is Windows 7 Business 64 bit.
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Using Cygwin The installation directory (by default, c:\cygwin) is the root of the Unix-like file system, which contains bin, etc, home, tmp, and usr directories as would be found on a GNU/Linux or other Unix system.
In a new installation of Cygwin, your home directory will be in C:/cygwin/home/<user>/ , and can be accessed by the usual ~ shortcut. Although this works just fine, it's often useful to use the utilities provided by Cygwin in your local Windows user area C:/Users/<user> .
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Safely change home directory
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