Small fix to Cygwin FAQ

Tue Apr 18 19:05:00 GMT 2006

Dave Korn wrote:
> On 18 April 2006 19:03, Mateusz Loskot wrote:
>> Igor Peshansky wrote:
>>> On 2006年4月18日, Mateusz oskot wrote:
>>>>>>> I'm Mateusz, a new user of Cygwin. [snip] I tested this note
>>>> and I noticed that .bashrc is not loaded when launching
>>>> cygwin.bat or bash --login -i command.
>>>>>> Well, no, it isn't. However, ~/.bash_profile is, and it should
>>> have been added by the default installation script. And the
>>> default ~/.bash_profile reads ~/.bashrc, so you get the same
>>> functionality whether you are in a login shell or not.
>> OK, but why FAQ does not instruct user to edit ~/.bash_profile
>> file?
>>> Because it's all the completely standard behaviour of bash as
> documented in the bash info/man pages; .bashrc, as the fine manual
> makes clear, is only loaded when a interactive *NON* login shell is
> started.

OK. It's clear.
Best regards
-- 
Mateusz Åoskot
http://mateusz.loskot.net
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