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Date: Fri, 13 Oct 2006 19:52:15 -0400
From: "Tim Largy" <tim DOT largy AT gmail DOT com>
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Subject: Re: What happens the first time BASH is run?
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On 10/13/06, Tim Largy <tim DOT largy AT gmail DOT com> wrote:
> When running BASH for the first time after installing Cygwin, the
> user's home directory is created, and .bashrc and other dotfiles are
> copied into it. Where is this behavior controlled? Is it compiled into
> BASH? If that is the case, what other scripts does BASH call upon to
> set up the user's home directory?
>
> Tim
>

Answering my own question: the existence check for the  home
directory, as well as it's creation, takes place in /etc/profile. How
I forgot this I do not know as I spotted it yesterday.

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