On Mon, 12 Apr 2004, Hoss wrote: > hi. > > I'm a newbie to cygwin and I'm trying to setup .bashrc to start when I > launch a cygwin terminal (using rxvt in fact). my .bashrc is ignored > which I think is because the %HOME% environment variable is not set > *before* I run bash/rxvt. When I do set it, it simply causes bash to > create new directories. Basically I'm not sure whether %HOME% (a > windows environment variable) should be set in Windows or POSIX format, > and how to quote the string or escape spaces in either case - I'm trying > to make sure my home directory is the same as my windows profile > directory (done this) and that bash recognises this as the location to > find .bashrc. > > Hoep someone can help! > > Thanks > hoss
See <http://cygwin.com/faq/faq_4.html#SEC38>. BTW, that entry should be augmented with "bash --login" will execute .bash_profile instead of .bashrc, as outlined in the 'INVOCATION' section of the bash manpage". FWIW, to avoid surprises, my ~/.bash_profile is a symlink to ~/.bashrc. Igor -- http://cs.nyu.edu/~pechtcha/ |\ _,,,---,,_ [EMAIL PROTECTED] ZZZzz /,`.-'`' -. ;-;;,_ [EMAIL PROTECTED] |,4- ) )-,_. ,\ ( `'-' Igor Pechtchanski, Ph.D. '---''(_/--' `-'\_) fL a.k.a JaguaR-R-R-r-r-r-.-.-. Meow! "I have since come to realize that being between your mentor and his route to the bathroom is a major career booster." -- Patrick Naughton -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/
