On Sat, Sep 20, 2008 at 12:08 PM, Softeam <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hello from Paris, > > Since I downloaded and watched the "Revolution OS" documentary yesterday I > have decided to install win-bash on my computer. > > I noticed that win-bash doesn't read .bash_profile, .profile, etc. > customization files from the working directory at login - forcing me to > source them at each login. > > Am I doing something wrong ?
This is the GNU coreutils mailng list. Coreutils does not include the Bash shell, so we're not in much of a position to help with your problem (that is, it's not our software you are using). You could try asking for help on a Bash-related mailing list, but then on the other hand your problem looks Windows-specific. I think you might have better luck asking for help from the win-bash folks. Fortunately, their homepage includes a link to the bug-reporting address: http://win-bash.sourceforge.net/ (I found this with a very simple web search). Stepping back for a second though, the great thing about the Unix shell (and Bash as an example of it) is that it's easy to plug lots of powerful tools together. If you only have Bash installed on your system, all those great tools are missing. While you can still do useful things with Bash in such an environment, it's quite limiting. I suggest that you might find it useful to have all those other tools, too. A great way to do this would be to use GNU/Linux. But this is not always feasible (perhaps you have just one computer which needs to run Windows and cannot run any kind of virtual machine). A great alternative for this situation is Cygwin, which is a full environment of Unix-like tools that runs on various versions of Windows. For more information, please see http://www.cygwin.com/. As an added bonus, you will see that Cygwin includes a much more recent version of the Bash shell. Thanks, James. _______________________________________________ Bug-coreutils mailing list [email protected] http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-coreutils
