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Re: startup help with bash
- To: gnu-win32 at cygnus dot com
- Subject: Re: startup help with bash
- From: mh at mike dot franken dot de (Michael Hirmke)
- Date: 14 May 1998 18:14:00 +0200
- Organization: Kommunikationsnetz Franken e.V. (Nuernberg)
Hi Monjar,,
>I use bash on DEC Unix and Linux and am just starting with it on NT. A
>Couple of easy questions that I can't find docs for:
>
>1. what determines where my home dir is?
The env var HOME.
>2. does win32 bash use the same startup files (.bash_profile, etc) in the
>same manner as its unix brethren?
Jepp, it does.
>3. if the answer to #2 is Yes then how do I make it read them. Maybe a flag
>on the bash invocation in the bat file?
Nope, you just have let bash find them by setting HOME as appropriate.
>
>
>Daniel Monjar / mailto:dmonjar@orgtek.com
Bye.
Michael.
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