From: Richard Dawe <rich AT phekda DOT freeserve DOT co DOT uk>
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.djgpp
Subject: Re: _bashrc somewhere else?
Date: Fri, 12 Jul 2002 23:39:22 +0100
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Hello.

deckerben wrote:
> Is there a way to set BASH_ENV in DOS so that it looks somewhere else
> besides %HOME%\_bashrc for it's startup settings? I tried something like:
> 
> set BASH_ENV=/dev/env/DJDIR/etc/profile
> set BASH_ENV=D:\user\DJGPP\etc\profile
> 
> but nothing seems to work.

It says on the bash man page.

"When bash is started non-interactively,  to  run  a  shell
script, for example, it looks for the variable BASH_ENV in
the environment, expands its value if  it  appears  there,
and  uses the expanded value as the name of a file to read
and execute.  Bash behaves as  if  the  following  command
were executed:
       if [ -n "$BASH_ENV" ]; then . "$BASH_ENV"; fi
but  the  value of the PATH variable is not used to search
for the file name."