Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@cygwin.com Message-ID: <42643B9F.2407BBD@dessent.net> Date: Mon, 18 Apr 2005 15:58:39 -0700 From: Brian Dessent Organization: My own little world... MIME-Version: 1.0 To: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: why $HOME/.bashrc is not picked up? References: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-IsSubscribed: yes Reply-To: cygwin@cygwin.com lin q wrote: > I can not see "hahaha" when I run cygwin.bat to open a new cygwin window. > > I am sure HOME is set as I add the following line to cygwin.bat, > > echo %HOME% > > and I see the correct path. > > Then I wonder why else might be wrong here? ~/.bashrc is not read for interactive login shells. "man bash", section "INVOCATION". The typical thing to do if you want .bashrc to be read for both login and non-login shells is to place something like "[ -f ~/.bashrc ] && . ~/.bashrc" in ~/.bash_profile. 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/