Re: [Mingw-users] question on aliases and locatio of .bashrc

[Bob F. <bfr...@si...>]

On Sat, 22 Jun 2002, Yuejin Zhang wrote:

> I am trying to get alias etc. to work with msys. One way
> seems to use the .bashrc file. I have tried to put a .bashrc
> file under $HOME and a few other directories but the msys
> shell is not reading it. Could some one let me know how to
> do this?

Add the line

ENV=.bashrc

somewhere in /etc/profile

The reason why this is necessary is because of this:

     --norc
          Do not read and  execute  the  personal  initialization
          file  ~/.bashrc  if  the  shell  is  interactive.  This
          option is on by default if the shell is invoked as sh.

If MSYS was to provide a "bash" and execute "bash" rather than "sh"
then all would be better.

Bob
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