Starting up : file seek order

[Brian Dessent]

fergus@bonhard.uklinux.net wrote:

> Q1. When starting (a properly installed and mounted) Cygwin up using the
> command c:\bin\bash --login -i <Enter> it seems that the file /etc/profile
> is sought and run then the file ~/.bash_profile likewise. Yes? (This seems
> to happen even when both files are empty, as evidenced by constructing them
> as one-line files of the type "echo This file is called...".)

http://www.gnu.org/manual/bash-2.05a/html_chapter/bashref_6.html#SEC63

Brian

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