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RE: Bash 2.05 not reading my ~/.bashrc
- From: "Hannu E K Nevalainen \(garbage mail\)" <garbage_collector at telia dot com>
- To: <cygwin at cygwin dot com>
- Date: Fri, 13 Jun 2003 22:48:54 +0200
- Subject: RE: Bash 2.05 not reading my ~/.bashrc
> From: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com [mailto:cygwin-owner@cygwin.com]On Behalf
> Of Schulze, Dean
> Just installed the latest Cygwin release and the bash shell
> (2.05b.0(9)-release) does not read my $HOME/.bashrc file.
>
> The HOME env. variable was not set when I installed Cygwin so I set it
> later. Maybe the installation uses the value of $HOME when the
> installation
> was done (just a guess). I also changed the 'mount c: /cygdrive'
> to 'mount
> c: /c' and then set it back. Still doesn't work.
>
> Any ideas on what I need to do to get bash to read my ~/.bashrc?
Documentation:
$ info bash
Guess:
Does your cygwin.bat start bash as a 'login shell'?
e.g:
bash -login -i
# executes ~/.profile
/Hannu E K Nevalainen, 59~14'N, 17~12'E
~ <=> degree
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