Earnie Boyd wrote: >> On Wed, Feb 27, 2013 at 3:15 PM, Kevin Layer wrote: >> > That was one of the experiments I did, and I saw no evidence that any >> > commands were executed. I even passed it as the argument to the >> > invocation. >> > >> > As for the assumption, I understand that an error could have >> > short-circuited the processing of my init file, but in the bash's that >> > haven't read it, >> > >> > . .bashrc >> > >> > produces no errors *and* has my aliases and new prompt. >> >> $HOME/.bashrc isn't always read. It depends on how bash is executed. >> If this is a --login you need $HOME/.bash_profile that sources >> $HOME/.bashrc.
Did you read the original report and all the replies in the chain? ...it requires my .bashrc to be sourced (.bash_profile merely sources .bashrc). -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple