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RE: Small fix to Cygwin FAQ
- From: "Dave Korn" <dave dot korn at artimi dot com>
- To: <cygwin at cygwin dot com>
- Date: Tue, 18 Apr 2006 19:45:35 +0100
- Subject: RE: Small fix to Cygwin FAQ
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.
cheers,
DaveK
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