Re: 1.7.7: bash --login does not read my ~/.profile

[Paul Cantalupo <pcantalupo at gmail dot com>]

Thank you Greg and Eliot. I erroneously assumed that bash reads the
.profile if it exists. Thank you again.


Paul Cantalupo
University of Pittsburgh


On Sat, Feb 12, 2011 at 11:27 AM, Paul Cantalupo <pcantalupo@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hello,
>
> Recently I installed Cygwin on an XP computer at home. But when I
> execute Cygwin.bat (contents below), the bash shell does not read my
> ~/.profile (contents below).
>
> $ cat /Cygwin.bat
> @echo off
> C:
> chdir C:\cygwin\bin
> bash --login -i
>
> pgc92@polaris ~
> $ cat .profile
> export PERL5LIB=~/downloads/bioperl/bioperl-live
>
> So, that when I type "echo $PERL5LIB" I don't get any output. I've
> attached the output from cygcheck -s -v -r as well.
>
> Thank you for your help,
>
> Paul
>
> Paul Cantalupo
> University of Pittsburgh
>

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