1.7.7: bash --login does not read my ~/.profile

Eliot Moss moss@cs.umass.edu
Sat Feb 12 16:38:00 GMT 2011


On 2/12/2011 11:27 AM, Paul Cantalupo wrote:
> Hello,
>
> Recently I installed Cygwin on an XP computer at home. But when I
> execute Cygwin.bat (contents below), the bash shell does not read my
> ~/.profile (contents below).

Do you have either ~/.bash_profile or ~/.bash_login in existence?
bash reads the *first* one only of .bash_profile, .bash_login, and
.profile that it finds, and it searches in the order I listed them.

Regards -- Eliot Moss

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