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Tim Largy 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?

Hard coding that into bash would be needlessly complex and a maintenance
nightmare.  Instead /etc/profile just copies them from /etc/skel if they
don't exist.

You probably also ought to the section of "man bash" titled INVOCATION.

Brian

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