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From:	"Hannu E K Nevalainen \(garbage mail\)" <garbage_collector AT telia DOT com>
To:	<cygwin AT cygwin DOT com>
Subject:	RE: another newbie question
Date:	Fri, 15 Aug 2003 21:56:35 +0200
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> From: cygwin-owner AT cygwin DOT com [mailto:cygwin-owner AT cygwin DOT com]On Behalf
> Of Rob Clack

> After my previous installation, done by someone else, got blown away 
> when I installed 1.3.22-1 I find I can't get everything to work 
> perfectly.  Mostly, just not perfect.
> 
> eg /etc/profile advises me to put personal customisation of $PATH into 
> my .bashrc file, but this doesn't get executed when I log on.
> 
> I've got around that by putting the customisation and stuff like setting 
> aliases into my .profile file, but don't know what ricochets I might 
> trigger by doing this.


$ info bash
/bash startup files
...

$ man bash
/FILES$
...
FILES
       /bin/bash
              The bash executable
       /etc/profile
              The systemwide initialization file,
              executed for login shells
       ~/.bash_profile
              The personal initialization file,
              executed for login shells
       ~/.bashrc
              The individual per-interactive-shell startup file
       ~/.bash_logout
              The individual login shell cleanup file,
              executed when a login shell exits
       ~/.inputrc
              Individual readline initialization file


/Hannu E K Nevalainen, B.Sc. EE Microcomputer systems - 59?14'N, 17?12'E
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