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Dave Korn wrote:
> On 18 April 2006 19:03, Mateusz Loskot wrote:
>> Igor Peshansky wrote:
>>> 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.
>> OK, but why FAQ does not instruct user to edit ~/.bash_profile
>> file?
> 
> 
> Because it's all the completely standard behaviour of bash as
> documented in the bash info/man pages; .bashrc, as the fine manual
> makes clear, is only loaded when a interactive *NON* login shell is
> started.

OK. It's clear.

Best regards
-- 
Mateusz Łoskot
http://mateusz.loskot.net

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