bash 2.05b-8 doesnot execute .bashrc even if HOME is defined and .bashrc is under both ~/ and /

[Andrew DeFaria]

Tianming Kong wrote:

> I'm using cygwin v1.3.18 under Windows XP Professional. Unfortunately 
> bash 2.05b-8 does not exectute my startup script ~/.bashrc -- I have 
> to manually run it every time I start a new cygwin window.
>
> I defined environement variable HOME as "d:\" using windows control 
> panel. I also copy my .bashrc file to cygwin / directory. None of this 
> works.
>
> I also tried to use it under Windows 2000 Professional. The same 
> problem happened.

Try this:

$ mv ~/.bashrc ~/.bash_login



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