Great, Thank you both. I now have .bash_profile calling ~/.bashrc.
Just had a look at the ~/.profile script on my linux box and I can see where it is making the call to the local ~/.bashrc file ... # if running bash if [ -n "$BASH_VERSION" ]; then # include .bashrc if it exists if [ -f "$HOME/.bashrc" ]; then . "$HOME/.bashrc" fi fi ... I guess I am too used to having this already set-up for me. Thanks again for the help. Cheers Neil ----- Original Message ---- From: Csaba Raduly <rcs...@gmail.com> To: cygwin@cygwin.com Sent: Thu, February 11, 2010 3:30:15 PM Subject: Re: .bashrc file not run On Thu, Feb 11, 2010 at 4:06 PM, Thomas Wolff wrote: > On 11.02.2010 15:55, Neil Blue wrote: > > By design (and documentation), bash runs *only* .profile (and /etc/profile) > if started as a "login shell". Not quite. >From "info bash" , Node: Bash Startup Files When Bash is invoked as an interactive login shell, or as a non-interactive shell with the `--login' option, it first reads and executes commands from the file `/etc/profile', if that file exists. After reading that file, it looks for `~/.bash_profile', `~/.bash_login', and `~/.profile', in that order, and reads and executes commands from the first one that exists and is readable. Note to Neil: .bashrc_profile is ignored by bash. You want .bash_profile Hope this helps. -- Life is complex, with real and imaginary parts -- 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 -- 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