Tim Largy wrote: > When running BASH for the first time after installing Cygwin, the > user's home directory is created, and .bashrc and other dotfiles are > copied into it. Where is this behavior controlled? Is it compiled into > BASH? If that is the case, what other scripts does BASH call upon to > set up the user's home directory?
Hard coding that into bash would be needlessly complex and a maintenance nightmare. Instead /etc/profile just copies them from /etc/skel if they don't exist. You probably also ought to the section of "man bash" titled INVOCATION. Brian -- 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/
