Subject: Re: .bash_profile
From: "Terry Lincoln" <[email-masked]>
To: "Halim, Salman" <[email-masked]>
Cc: "Cygwin Mailing List" <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 23 Mar 2000 06:50:03 -0500

Halim,

I usually put a sequence like the following in my .bash_profile:
<EXAMPLE>

if [ -f ~/.bashrc ] source ~/.bashrc

</EXAMPLE>
Don't include the pseudo-tags.  Hope that helps.

W. Terry Lincoln
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- ----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Halim, Salman" <[email-masked]>
To: "'Terry Lincoln '" <[email-masked]>
Sent: Wednesday, March 22, 2000 8:25 PM
Subject: RE: .bash_profile

> aha!  thank you.  of course, now it doesn't read my .bashrc
> *sigh*  
> 
> thanks for the tip,
> 
> salman.
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Terry Lincoln
> To: Halim, Salman; [email-masked]
> Sent: 3/22/00 5:48 PM
> Subject: Re: .bash_profile
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> - ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Halim, Salman" <[email-masked]>
> To: <[email-masked]>
> Sent: Wednesday, March 22, 2000 5:25 PM
> Subject: RE: .bash_profile
> 
> 
> > i have home set correctly; it reads my .bashrc file, no
> > problem, just not my .bash_profile
> > 
> 
> You have to start bash as a 'login' shell to have it read
> ~/.bash_profile
> like this:
> % bash --login
> 
> > -- 
> >    =========================================================
> >    Salman Halim                 Email:  [email-masked]
> >    =========================================================
> >    If a  man says something  in a  forest, and there  are no
> >    women around to hear him, is he still wrong?
> > 
> > 
> > > -----Original Message-----
> > > From: John Wiersba [mailto:[email-masked]]
> > > Sent: Wednesday, March 22, 2000 5:09 PM
> > > To: 'Halim, Salman'; [email-masked]
> > > Subject: RE: .bash_profile
> > > 
> > > 
> > > Is $HOME set in your cygnus.bat?  See faq.txt ("How can I get
> > >  bash to read
> > > my .bashrc file on startup?")
> > > 
> > > > -----Original Message-----
> > > > From: Halim, Salman [mailto:[email-masked]]
> > > > Sent: Wednesday, March 22, 2000 4:58 PM
> > > > To: [email-masked]
> > > > Subject: .bash_profile
> > > > 
> > > > 
> > > > hi,
> > > > 
> > > > i'm using the new bash 2.04 release and it doesn't seem to
> > > > be 
> > > >  reading my
> > > > .bash_profile file -- am i doing something wrong?  (i
> > > > didn't  use the file
> > > > until just a few minutes ago so the problem didn't occur 
> > > > until just now!).
> > > > 
> > > > thank you,
> > > > 
> > > > -- 
> > > >   
> > > > ========================================================= 
> > > >    Salman Halim                 Email: 
> > > > [email-masked] 
> > > >   
> > > > ========================================================= 
> > > >    If a  man says something  in a  forest, and there  are
> > > > no 
> > > >    women around to hear him, is he still wrong?
> > > > 
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> Regards,
> 
> W. Terry Lincoln
> Senior Solution Developer Ciber corporation
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