On 2/27/2013 10:36 AM, Robert Pendell wrote: Dear Robert -- I think the original poster's concern was not the general working of bash with .bash_profile and .bashrc, but the specific behavior when bash is started by an instance of mintty which itself is started by the X windows server in .startxwinrc -- a behavior that seems at variance with the normal bash startup behavior.
My sense of what you wrote was that it reported testing running a new bash from bash, which is not the situation of concern ... Regards -- Eliot Moss -- 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