X-Recipient: archive-cygwin@delorie.com X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Message-ID: Date: Fri, 18 Jul 2008 10:07:10 -0400 From: "Mark J. Reed" To: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: bash load In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline References: X-Google-Sender-Auth: 018846aacc2d39d3 X-IsSubscribed: yes Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: 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 That's a general bash question, not Cygwin-specific; I recommend looking here: http://www.faqs.org/faqs/unix-faq/shell/bash/ But the short answer is that bash reads either .bashrc (non-login shell) or .bash_profile (login shell), but not both. If you want the stuff in your .bashrc to be loaded in a login shell, you need to source it explicitly inside your .bash_profile via something like this: . "${HOME}"/.bashrc Also make sure that the .bash files are in your actual home directory, which is usually not /home but /home/YourUserName... -- Mark J. Reed -- 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/