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Subject:	RE: what's wrong with my cygwin command prompt?
Date:	Wed, 22 Nov 2006 12:35:51 -0000
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On 22 November 2006 09:26, nickyeng wrote:

> so , which bashrc file should i edit?
> 
> bash.bashrc is same as bashrc file?
> 
> what location please tell me.


  The system-wide default prompt is set in /etc/profile, but if you edit that,
setup.exe can no longer automatically update it if any new versions of
base-files come along.  So it's better to make customisations to the files in
your home dir.  Generally, you would modify ~/.bashrc, having first made sure
that ~/.bash_profile invokes .bashrc; that works for both login and nonlogin
shells (and you probably don't care about the prompt for a non-interactive
shell!)  Read the bash info page, chapter 6.2 "Bash Startup Files" for a full
explanation of which startup files get used when.

    cheers,
      DaveK
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