X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org From: "Dave Korn" To: Subject: RE: Small fix to Cygwin FAQ Date: Tue, 18 Apr 2006 19:45:35 +0100 Message-ID: <003301c66318$4792dd50$a501a8c0@CAM.ARTIMI.COM> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" X-Mailer: Microsoft Office Outlook 11 In-Reply-To: <444529C7.9080204@loskot.net> Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@cygwin.com Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-MIME-Autoconverted: from quoted-printable to 8bit by delorie.com id k3IIjlOS016849 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 -- Can't think of a witty .sigline today.... -- 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/