On Thu, Feb 11, 2010 at 4:06 PM, Thomas Wolff wrote: > On 11.02.2010 15:55, Neil Blue wrote: > > By design (and documentation), bash runs *only* .profile (and /etc/profile) > if started as a "login shell".
Not quite. >From "info bash" , Node: Bash Startup Files When Bash is invoked as an interactive login shell, or as a non-interactive shell with the `--login' option, it first reads and executes commands from the file `/etc/profile', if that file exists. After reading that file, it looks for `~/.bash_profile', `~/.bash_login', and `~/.profile', in that order, and reads and executes commands from the first one that exists and is readable. Note to Neil: .bashrc_profile is ignored by bash. You want .bash_profile Hope this helps. -- Life is complex, with real and imaginary parts -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple
