Re: customizing bash

[Jani Tiainen <redetin at luukku dot com>]

vshastri@san.rr.com kirjoitti:
> Hi,
>
>   I am a new cygwin user. I am not able to locate the .profile, .login .bashrc etc bash files, so I can use it to customize bash. I understand from various installation instruction that I red that the HOME env variable needs to be set for this.  I followed the instructions given in many cygwin guides and install docs and updated my HOME environment variable both in my Windows system environment variable tab as
>
> HOME=C:\Documents and Settings\vshastri
>
>  
>
> And updated in cygwin.bat as follows before starting the bash shell:
>
> @echo off
>
> C:
> chdir C:\cygwin\bin
> set HOME=C:\Documents and Settings\vshastri
>
> bash --login –i
>
>  
>
> I verified my update when I printed my environment variables and got the following (only showing relevant fields):
>
> $ env
>
> !::=::\
>
> !C:=C:\cygwin\bin
>
> ALLUSERSPROFILE=C:\Documents and Settings\All Users
>
> ANT_HOME=C:\ant-1.6.2
>
> APPDATA=C:\Documents and Settings\vshastri\Application Data
>
> CATALINA_HOME=C:\jakarta-tomcat-5.5.4
>
> COMMONPROGRAMFILES=C:\Program Files\Common Files
>
> ….
>
> CVS_RSH=/bin/ssh
>
> FP_NO_HOST_CHECK=NO
>
> HOME=/cygdrive/c/Documents and Settings/vshastri
>
> HOMEDRIVE=C:
>
> HOMEPATH=\Documents and Settings\vshastri
>
> HOMESHARE=\\nas\users
>
> ……
>
> OLDPWD=/cygdrive/c/cygwin/usr/bin
>
> OS=Windows_NT
>
>  
>
> Despite all these setup, I am still not able to see the creation of .profile, .login etc
>
> Please Help. How do I setup and access these files so I can ustomize my shell?
>
> Thanks

Well, you have to create files by yourself with your favourite editor.

If you really need basic files:
cp /etc/skel/* ~
chown `echo $USER`: .bash_profile .bashrc .inputrc

--

Jani Tiainen


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