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Date: Mon, 18 Apr 2005 15:58:39 -0700
From: Brian Dessent <brian AT dessent DOT net>
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Subject: Re: why $HOME/.bashrc is not picked up?
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lin q wrote:

>   I can not see "hahaha" when I run cygwin.bat to open a new cygwin window.
> 
>   I am sure HOME is set as I add the following line to cygwin.bat,
> 
>         echo %HOME%
> 
>   and I see the correct path.
> 
>   Then I wonder why else might be wrong here?

~/.bashrc is not read for interactive login shells.  "man bash", section
"INVOCATION".

The typical thing to do if you want .bashrc to be read for both login
and non-login shells is to place something like "[ -f ~/.bashrc ] && .
~/.bashrc" in ~/.bash_profile.

Brian

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