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From: "Terry Lincoln" <lincoln2@rochester.rr.com>
To: "Halim, Salman" <salman@bluestone.com>, <cygwin@sourceware.cygnus.com>
Subject: Re: .bash_profile
Date: Wed, 22 Mar 2000 14:37:00 -0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <022b01bf9450$b2079880$c92c1818@rochester.rr.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <512EBEF97F02D311B89900A0C9D1776009DAF1@thor.operations.bluestone.com>

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- ----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Halim, Salman" <salman@bluestone.com>
To: <cygwin@sourceware.cygnus.com>
Sent: Wednesday, March 22, 2000 5:25 PM
Subject: RE: .bash_profile


> i have home set correctly; it reads my .bashrc file, no problem,
> just not my .bash_profile
> 

You have to start bash as a 'login' shell to have it read
~/.bash_profile
like this:
% bash --login

> -- 
>    =========================================================
>    Salman Halim                 Email:  salman@bluestone.com
>    =========================================================
>    If a  man says something  in a  forest, and there  are no
>    women around to hear him, is he still wrong?
> 
> 
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: John Wiersba [ mailto:John.Wiersba@medstat.com ]
> > Sent: Wednesday, March 22, 2000 5:09 PM
> > To: 'Halim, Salman'; cygwin@sourceware.cygnus.com
> > Subject: RE: .bash_profile
> > 
> > 
> > Is $HOME set in your cygnus.bat?  See faq.txt ("How can I get 
> > bash to read
> > my .bashrc file on startup?")
> > 
> > > -----Original Message-----
> > > From: Halim, Salman [ mailto:salman@bluestone.com ]
> > > Sent: Wednesday, March 22, 2000 4:58 PM
> > > To: cygwin@sourceware.cygnus.com
> > > Subject: .bash_profile
> > > 
> > > 
> > > hi,
> > > 
> > > i'm using the new bash 2.04 release and it doesn't seem to be
> > >  reading my
> > > .bash_profile file -- am i doing something wrong?  (i didn't 
> > > use the file
> > > until just a few minutes ago so the problem didn't occur 
> > > until just now!).
> > > 
> > > thank you,
> > > 
> > > -- 
> > >    =========================================================
> > >    Salman Halim                 Email:  salman@bluestone.com
> > >    =========================================================
> > >    If a  man says something  in a  forest, and there  are no
> > >    women around to hear him, is he still wrong?
> > > 
> > > --
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> > > 
> > 
> 
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> 
Regards,

W. Terry Lincoln
Senior Solution Developer Ciber corporation
WTerryLincoln@engineer.com lincoln2@rochester.rr.com


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  reply	other threads:[~2000-03-22 14:37 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2000-03-22 14:28 .bash_profile Halim, Salman
2000-03-22 14:37 ` Terry Lincoln [this message]
     [not found] <512EBEF97F02D311B89900A0C9D1776009DAF2@thor.operations.bluestone.com>
2000-03-23  3:41 ` .bash_profile Terry Lincoln
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2000-03-22 14:14 .bash_profile John Wiersba
2000-03-22 14:00 .bash_profile Halim, Salman

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