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From: | dave AT adboyd DOT com (J. David Boyd) |
Subject: | Re: .bashrc not working (and yes I've read the FAQ etc as you'll see) |
Date: | 18 Feb 2005 10:17:17 -0500 |
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"Steve Mayes" <mayes DOT s AT UCLES DOT org DOT uk> writes: > Hi, > > Forgive the defensive addendum but I've no wish to be either flamed or > ignored when I've tried available pathways to solving this. > > Situation: > > .bashrc not working and yes my $home variable is correctly defined but I > put a copy of .bashrc into / anyway just in case. > The --login and -i switches are used. > I even used the --rcfile switch and pointed it directly to my .bashrc > file at which point cygwin just bombs out. > > .bashrc file contains only the line > > Alias ls='ls -al --color=auto' > > I even made .bashrc executable using the command chmod +x (just in case) > but this changed none of the behaviour. What am I missing. > > Steve I remember having some problem like this. To get around it (I am the only user on this machine), I added the line . $HOME/.bashrc to the very end of /etc/profile. It's probably not the 'right' way to do it, but who cares. It works fine. -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/
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