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From:	"Brett Serkez" <bserkez AT gmail DOT com>
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Subject:	Re: newbie:Missing .bashrc and other startups
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> I installed cygwin but did not select enough tools.  Took about 4 installs
> before I thought I got all the stuff I needed, x11, etc, etc.  However, there
> is no .bashrc nor .bash_profile.  cd /home/xxx does nothing except report home
> does not exist.  echo $HOME does work.  Is there a fix for this?  What did I
> fail to setup?   I looked at a friends system and his home directory has all
> the bash stuff that I am missing.  Shall i uninstall and then select everything
> and re-install?  I googled but didnt see this problem.

Have you started a login shell?  The first time you start a login
shell for a given user, the files in /etc/skel are used to create a
home directory for that user.  This is a bit different than a UNIX
system that uses these files at the time the account is created.

Brett

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