Re: Loginscript

["Larry Hall (Cygwin)" <reply-to-list-only-lh at cygwin dot com>]

Renà Berber wrote:
> Andreas Pfister wrote:
>
> > I have a question regarding the startup procedure of cygwin.
> > I tried to put an .login file into my home folder with an simple command
> > in it an suggested that this will be executed after starting up cygwin
> > but nothing happened. Any ideas or approaches to get that work ?
>
> .login only works with csh (tcsh is also 'c-shell'), Cygwin uses bash
> which use .bashrc and a few others to set up things at startup.

For those curious about the details, see the bash (or tcsh) man page.
For those keeping score, this is not a Cygwin-specific issue. ;-)

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A: Yes.
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