X-Recipient: archive-cygwin@delorie.com X-SWARE-Spam-Status: No, hits=-1.9 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00,SARE_MSGID_LONG40,SPF_PASS X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: References: <4A48571D.1020902@tlinx.org> Date: Mon, 29 Jun 2009 09:43:44 +0100 Message-ID: <416096c60906290143o4f101c20k27f76a93783da0e8@mail.gmail.com> Subject: Re: .bashrc From: Andy Koppe To: cygwin@cygwin.com Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit 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 2009/6/29 Dave Tang: > So I've changed my home directory to /home/d.tang in my passwd file. I > copied the .bashrc into my new home directory. > > But when I restart cygwin, it still doesn't load the .bashrc. Bash on Cygwin is normally invoked as a login shell, in which case it doesn't source .bashrc. Instead, it sources .bash_profile or .profile, so unless you explicitly source .bashrc from there, it won't be processed. See here for the full story: http://www.gnu.org/software/bash/manual/bashref.html#Bash-Startup-Files Andy -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple