How to default to other directory instead of home directory

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I am developing on a windows machine  The only place I need for linux command line is Git Bash  The problem is  When I open it  I am in the home directory  I have to change the directory to my workspace  like   cd          d work space for my company project code source   Can I wrap this in a  sh file so I don t have to hand-type it anymore  This should be simple but I have zero knowledge about Linux command line  I am really appreciated If you can walk me through how to create that  sh file

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My Git Bash shortcut on Windows complained when I put the cd to my work directory into ~/.bashrc

WARNING: Found ~/.bashrc but no ~/.bash_profile, ~/.bash_login or ~/.profile.

This looks like an incorrect setup.
A ~/.bash_profile that loads ~/.bashrc will be created for you.

So git created this .bash_profile:

$ cat ~/.bash_profile
# generated by Git for Windows
test -f ~/.profile && . ~/.profile
test -f ~/.bashrc && . ~/.bashrc

Which does the job.

Alternatively, you can just remove the .bashrc again and put the cd command into .bash_profile:

$ rm ~/.bashrc
$ echo "cd Source/Repos" >~/.bash_profile

$ cat ~/.bash_profile
cd Source/Repos

Once this is done you can close the Window and re-open it using your desktop shortcut and the prompt will tell you that your location is now where you wanted it - looks like this is my case:

Administrator@raptor1 MINGW64 ~/Source/Repos
$

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For windows  Follow these steps-   Go to windows home  Right click on  Git Bash  application  Properties  Shortcut Change these two settings    a  Delete --cd-to-home from target   b  Type folder path you want to start with git in  Start in     This worked for me

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Right-click the Git Bash application link go to Properties and modify the Start in location to be the location you want it to start from

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Please read warning below   Really simple way to do this in Windows  works with git bash  possibly others  is to create an environmental variable called HOME that points to your desired home directory    Right click on my computer  and choose properties Choose advanced system settings  location varies by Windows version  Within system properties  choose the advanced tab On the advanced tab  choose Environmental Variables  bottom button  Under  system variable  check to see if you already have a variable called HOME   If so  edit that variable by highlighting the variable name and clicking edit  Make the new variable name the desired path  If HOME does not already exist  click  new  under system variables and create a new variable called HOME whose value is desired path      NOTE  This may change the way other things work   For example  for me it changes where my  ssh config files live  In my case  I wanted my home to be U    because that s my main place that I put project work and application settings  i e  it really is my  home  directory     EDIT June 23  2017  This answer continues to get occasional upvotes  and I want to warn people that although this may  work   I agree with  AnthonyRaymond that it s not recommended  This is more of a temporary fix or a fix if you don t care if other things break  Changing your home won t cause active damage  like deleting your hard drive  but it s likely to cause insidious annoyances later  When you do start to have annoying problems down the road  you  probably won t remember this change    so you re likely to be scratching your head later on

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Add the line to the  bashrc file in the home directory  create the file if it doesn t exist    cd   touch  bashrc echo  cd   Desktop repos    gt  gt   bashrc

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Just write that line to a file  cd sh   then do this from your shell prompt       cd sh   Or you can create an alias or function in your  HOME  bashrc file   foo     cd  d work space for my company project code source       If the directory name includes spaces or other shell metacharacters  you ll need quotation marks  it won t hurt to add them even if they re not necessary   foo     cd   d Work Space project code source         Note that I ve omitted the           you don t need it    EDIT  If you add a line  foo   to your  bashrc after the function definition  your shell will start in that directory  Or you can just use the cd command directly in your  bashrc if you aren t going to need to use the function later    The name foo is just an example  you should pick a more meaningful name

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it must be cd d  work space for       without the   it doesn t work for me

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This may help you       Right click on git bash -  properties In Shorcut tab -  Start in field -  enter your user defined path Make sure the Target field does not include --go-to-home or it will continue to start in the directory specified in your HOME variable   Thats it

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Another solution for Windows users will be to copy the Git Bash lnk file to the directory you need to start from and launch it from there

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This will do it assuming you want this to happen each time you open the command line   echo cd          d work space for my company project code source  gt  gt     bashrc   Now when you open the shell it will move up three directories from home and change to code source   This code simply appends the line  cd          d work space for my company project code source  to a file named   bashrc   The      creates a file if it does not exist and then appends  The  bashrc file is useful for running commands at start-up log-in time  i e  loading modules etc

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I use ConEmu  strongly recommended on Windows  where I have a task for starting Git Bash like    Note the button  Startup dir     in the bottom  It adds a -new console d  lt path gt  to the startup command of the Git Bash  Make it point to wherever you like

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Here s a more Windows-ish solution  Right click on the Windows shortcut that you use to launch git bash  and click Properties  Change the value of  Start In  to your desired workspace path   Edit  Also check that the Target value does not include the --cd-to-home option as noted in the comments below

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From a Pinned Start Menu Item in Windows 10   Open the file location of the pinned shortcut Open the shortcut properties   Remove --cd-to-home arg Update Start in path  Re-pin to start menu via recently added             Thanks to all the other answers for how to do this   Wanted to provide Win 10 instructions

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If you type this command  echo cd d  some path  gt  gt     bashrc  Appends the line cd d  some path to  bashrc   The  gt  gt  creates a file if it doesn   t exist and then appends

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I also just changed the  Start in  setting of the shortcut icon to   HOMEDRIVE  xampp htdocs

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If you want to have projects choice list when u open GIT bash    edit ppath in code header to your git projects path  put this code into  bashrc file and copy it into your  HOME dir  in Win Vista   7 it is usually c  Users  YOU         bin bash ppath   d -projects -github  cd  ppath unset PROJECTS PROJECTS        i 0  echo echo -e  projects  n-------------   for f in   do     if   -d   f        then         PROJECTS     f           echo -e      i    -  e 1m f e 0m      fi done   if      PROJECTS     -gt 1   then     echo -ne   nchoose project        read proj     case   proj  in          0- expr    PROJECTS     - 1    cd    PROJECTS proj                  echo   wrong choice         esac else     echo  there is no projects  fi unset PROJECTS    you may want set this file as executable inside GIT bash chmod  x  bashrc  but its probably redundant  since this file is stored on ntfs filesystem

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