/etc/profile in BASH

Masterson, Dave dmasters@rational.com
Thu Sep 28 11:38:00 GMT 2000


Question:

In Cygwin 1.1, why are the last two lines of the installed /etc/profile the
following?

	test -f ./.profile && . ./.profile
	test -f ./.bashrc && . ./.bashrc

As described in the BASH MAN page, it would seem that BASH does this already
after reading /etc/profile.  Is this required because of the implementation
of Cygwin on MS-Windows?

David Masterson
*	Rational Software
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*	Cupertino, CA  95014
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*	dmasters@rational.com


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