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Date: Tue, 18 Apr 2006 13:42:42 -0400 (EDT)
From: Igor Peshansky <pechtcha AT cs DOT nyu DOT edu>
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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.

The only reason the default scripts won't create a ~/.bash_profile is if
one was already present in your home directory.  If so, you may want to
look at /etc/skel/.bash_profile and merge its content with whatever custom
~/.bash_profile you have.

> When I renamed this file to ~/.profile then it loads properly and all
> customizations are loaded.

Yes, but now subshells (which are not login shells) will not have these
customizations.

> I suppose there were some change between Cygwin releases but the FAQ has
> not been updated.

No, there was no related change in Cygwin.

> BTW, should I send output from cygcheck -s -v -r command?

Yes, it's always a good idea when reporting problems with your
installation.
	Igor
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