.profile not sourced?

[Larry Hall (Cygwin)]

On 4/5/2011 4:47 PM, philippe roux wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I have a file ~/.profile which contains some alias like
>
> alias la='ls -la'
>
> and ./bash_profile file containing the lines
>
> # source the users profile if it exists
> if [ -f "${HOME}/.profile" ] ; then
> source "${HOME}/.profile"
> fi
>
> when i launch the default shell (mintty) from the cygwin.bat short cuts I get

mintty is a terminal emulator, not a shell.  bash is a shell.

> 8<--8<--8<--8<--8<-- first window 8<--8<--8<--8<--8<--8<--
> $ la
> total 33
> drwxr-xr-x+ 1 philippe None 0 Apr 5 21:37 .
> drwxrwxrwt+ 1 philippe root 0 Apr 5 17:52 ..
> -rw------- 1 philippe None 2869 Apr 5 22:33 .bash_history
> -rwxr-xr-x 1 philippe None 1206 Apr 5 22:19 .bash_profile
> -rwxr-xr-x 1 philippe None 5663 Apr 3 21:33 .bashrc
> -rwxr-xr-x 1 philippe None 1461 Apr 3 21:34 .inputrc
> -rwxr-xr-x 1 philippe None 1695 Apr 5 22:18 .profile
>
> $ mintty &
> 8<--8<--8<--8<--8<--8<--8<--8<--8<--8<--8<--8<--8<--8<--8<--
>
> but in the new mintty window alias are not sourced :
>
> 8<--8<--8<--8<-- second window 8<--8<--8<--8<--8<--8<--8<--
> $ la
> bash: la: command not found
>
> 8<--8<--8<--8<--8<--8<--8<--8<--8<--8<--8<--8<--8<--8<--8<--
>
> what should i modify to recover my alias?

Do what cygwin.bat does - invoke bash as a login shell:

run mintty -e /bin/bash --login -i

-- 
Larry

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