bash load

[Mark J. Reed]

That's a general bash question, not Cygwin-specific; I recommend looking here:

http://www.faqs.org/faqs/unix-faq/shell/bash/

But the short answer is that bash reads either .bashrc (non-login
shell) or .bash_profile (login shell), but not both.  If you want the
stuff in your .bashrc to be loaded in a login shell, you need to
source it explicitly inside your .bash_profile via something like
this:

. "${HOME}"/.bashrc

Also make sure that the .bash files are in your actual home directory,
which is usually not /home but /home/YourUserName...

-- 
Mark J. Reed <markjreed@gmail.com>

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