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Subject:	RE: Small fix to Cygwin FAQ
Date:	Tue, 18 Apr 2006 19:45:35 +0100
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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.


    cheers,
      DaveK
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