X-Recipient: archive-cygwin@delorie.com X-SWARE-Spam-Status: No, hits=-0.9 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00,T_RP_MATCHES_RCVD X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Message-ID: <4D56B76E.7010101@cs.umass.edu> Date: Sat, 12 Feb 2011 11:38:06 -0500 From: Eliot Moss Reply-To: moss@cs.umass.edu User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 6.1; en-US; rv:1.9.2.13) Gecko/20101207 Thunderbird/3.1.7 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: 1.7.7: bash --login does not read my ~/.profile References: In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-IsSubscribed: yes Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm List-Id: 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 On 2/12/2011 11:27 AM, Paul Cantalupo wrote: > Hello, > > Recently I installed Cygwin on an XP computer at home. But when I > execute Cygwin.bat (contents below), the bash shell does not read my > ~/.profile (contents below). Do you have either ~/.bash_profile or ~/.bash_login in existence? bash reads the *first* one only of .bash_profile, .bash_login, and .profile that it finds, and it searches in the order I listed them. Regards -- Eliot Moss -- 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