Another .bashrc Question

[René Berber]

O. Olson wrote:

>>Define a HOME variable in Windows
>>Control Panel->System->Advanced->Environment Variables
>>I generally have my home directory in C:\Home\Arun.
>>
>>You must have .bashrc and .bash_login there. Mine
>>are both identical.
>>Arun
>>
> 
> Thanks Arun, but this does not work i.e. yes I managed
> to successfully define a HOME windows environment
> variable pointing to my Cygwin home where I have the
> .bashrc and this still did not work. (Need to mention
> that I restarted my computer also.)

Recently it was recommended to use (in a command window probably is better):

	bash -x -li

to see what's really going on when bash starts.

You'll see in the output where your .bashrc is looked for.
-- 
René Berber


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