.bashrc not sourced

.bashrc not sourced

[Gary Furash]

OS: Windows 7, Windows 10
Cygwin: latest, x64

When I log on w/ Mintty or Bash (via the bat file) it takes me to my
home directory but doesn't automatically source .bashrc. If I hand
type "source .bashrc" it then sources it.

-- gary furash | furashgary@gmail.com, 520-907-2470

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Re: .bashrc not sourced

[Ken Brown]

On 3/29/2016 11:04 AM, Gary Furash wrote:
> When I log on w/ Mintty or Bash (via the bat file) it takes me to my
> home directory but doesn't automatically source .bashrc.

It's only in non-login shells that .bashrc gets sourced by default.  If 
you want it to be sourced in login shells, you should do that in your 
~/.bash_profile file.  (See the section on startup files in the bash 
manual.)

For example, here's what the default .bash_profile does:

$ cat /etc/defaults/etc/skel/.bash_profile
[...]
# ~/.bash_profile: executed by bash(1) for login shells.
[...]
# User dependent .bash_profile file

# source the users bashrc if it exists
if [ -f "${HOME}/.bashrc" ] ; then
   source "${HOME}/.bashrc"
fi

Ken

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