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Re: Small fix to Cygwin FAQ
- From: Mateusz Åoskot <mateusz at loskot dot net>
- To: cygwin at cygwin dot com
- Date: Tue, 18 Apr 2006 20:58:40 +0200
- Subject: Re: Small fix to Cygwin FAQ
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- References: <003301c66318$4792dd50$a501a8c0@CAM.ARTIMI.COM>
Dave Korn wrote:
> On 18 April 2006 19:03, Mateusz Loskot wrote:
>> Igor Peshansky wrote:
>>> On Tue, 18 Apr 2006, Mateusz oskot wrote:
>>>
>>>> I'm Mateusz, a new user of Cygwin. [snip] I tested this note
>>>> and I noticed that .bashrc is not loaded when launching
>>>> cygwin.bat or bash --login -i command.
>>>
>>> Well, no, it isn't. However, ~/.bash_profile is, and it should
>>> have been added by the default installation script. And the
>>> default ~/.bash_profile reads ~/.bashrc, so you get the same
>>> functionality whether you are in a login shell or not.
>> OK, but why FAQ does not instruct user to edit ~/.bash_profile
>> file?
>
>
> Because it's all the completely standard behaviour of bash as
> documented in the bash info/man pages; .bashrc, as the fine manual
> makes clear, is only loaded when a interactive *NON* login shell is
> started.
OK. It's clear.
Best regards
--
Mateusz Åoskot
http://mateusz.loskot.net
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