Dave Korn wrote: > 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.
OK. It's clear. Best regards -- Mateusz Łoskot http://mateusz.loskot.net -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/
