another newbie question

Fri Aug 15 21:16:00 GMT 2003

> From: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com [mailto:cygwin-owner@cygwin.com]On Behalf
> Of Rob Clack

> After my previous installation, done by someone else, got blown away 
> when I installed 1.3.22-1 I find I can't get everything to work 
> perfectly. Mostly, just not perfect.
>> eg /etc/profile advises me to put personal customisation of $PATH into 
> my .bashrc file, but this doesn't get executed when I log on.
>> I've got around that by putting the customisation and stuff like setting 
> aliases into my .profile file, but don't know what ricochets I might 
> trigger by doing this.

$ info bash
/bash startup files
...
$ man bash
/FILES$
...
FILES
 /bin/bash
 The bash executable
 /etc/profile
 The systemwide initialization file,
 executed for login shells
 ~/.bash_profile
 The personal initialization file,
 executed for login shells
 ~/.bashrc
 The individual per-interactive-shell startup file
 ~/.bash_logout
 The individual login shell cleanup file,
 executed when a login shell exits
 ~/.inputrc
 Individual readline initialization file
/Hannu E K Nevalainen, B.Sc. EE Microcomputer systems - 59?14'N, 17?12'E
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