Re: .bashrc file not run

2010-02-12 Thread Neil Blue
/profile? J. On Thu, February 11, 2010 4:28 pm, Neil Blue wrote: 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

Re: .bashrc file not run

2010-02-12 Thread Neil Blue
12, 2010 9:34:15 AM Subject: Re: .bashrc file not run On Fri, February 12, 2010 9:17 am, Neil Blue wrote: The ~/.bashrc file wasn't called by default and altering ~/.profile did fix the problem. Hi Neil, Where did you get the ~/.profile from? It's not a base-file file... The comments in /etc

Re: .bashrc file not run

2010-02-12 Thread Neil Blue
AM Subject: Re: .bashrc file not run On Fri, February 12, 2010 9:51 am, Neil Blue wrote: I created the ~/.profile in response to the email from Csaba Raduly. the bash man page does say it will look for ~/.profile as well. It does, but you can't expect default behaviour from a non default file

.bashrc file not run

2010-02-11 Thread Neil Blue
Hello, This problem has me stumped. I have windows XP and cygwin with bash version 3.2.49(23)-release. I have set my passwd file to include my home directory /home/blueneil. I have placed .bashrc in my home directory and made it executable. I have placed .bashrc_profile in my home directory

Re: .bashrc file not run

2010-02-11 Thread Neil Blue
: 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