cygwin tilde expansion not working in interactive shell
cygwin, tilde-expansion
Solution
This is a recurring problem with Cygwin that, I believe, was tied to some upgrade bug a while ago and never resolved.
In any case, the solution is simple: open `/etc/passwd` in your favourite editor, and on the line with your username, between the fifth and sixth colons (the last and second-to-last), write in the correct path to your home directory, ie `/home/myusername`.
The relevant line in my `/etc/passwd` looks something like the below:
meand:unused:12345:54321:PCNAME\meand,S-1-5-21-4567891230-654987321-312456978-58252:/home/meand:/bin/screen
Problem
For some reason tilde expansion in Cygwin is not working for me at the prompt: ``` $ ls ~ ls: cannot access : No such file or directory $ ls ~/bin (lists /bin not $HOME/bin) $ echo $HOME /home/myusername $ echo ~ $ ``` In the last case there (`echo ~`) there is no output (other than a couple of blank lines.) I have `set expand-tilde on` set in my `$HOME/.inputrc` file. Is there something else I need configured?