Karl Kobata wrote: > I thought I understood how the environment is setup but I guess I don't > really. > Can anyone tell me the order and file names that are executed to get the > environment setup for a bash shell and tcsh shell? > Bash: > /etc/profile -> /etc/bashrc -> ~/.bash_profile -> ~/.bash_login -> > ~/.profile
For bash it is not a simple static list of files, it depends on a number of factors: whether it's a login shell, whether it's an interactive shell, whether it was invoked as 'sh' or 'bash', and so on. Read the man page, section INVOCATION. Everything is explained there. Brian -- 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/
