customizing bash

[vshastri at san dot rr dot com]

Hi,

  I am a new cygwin user. I am not able to locate the .profile, .login .bashrc etc bash files, so I can use it to customize bash. I understand from various installation instruction that I red that the HOME env variable needs to be set for this.  I followed the instructions given in many cygwin guides and install docs and updated my HOME environment variable both in my Windows system environment variable tab as

HOME=C:\Documents and Settings\vshastri

 

And updated in cygwin.bat as follows before starting the bash shell:

@echo off

C:
chdir C:\cygwin\bin
set HOME=C:\Documents and Settings\vshastri

bash --login –i

 

I verified my update when I printed my environment variables and got the following (only showing relevant fields):

$ env

!::=::\

!C:=C:\cygwin\bin

ALLUSERSPROFILE=C:\Documents and Settings\All Users

ANT_HOME=C:\ant-1.6.2

APPDATA=C:\Documents and Settings\vshastri\Application Data

CATALINA_HOME=C:\jakarta-tomcat-5.5.4

COMMONPROGRAMFILES=C:\Program Files\Common Files

….

CVS_RSH=/bin/ssh

FP_NO_HOST_CHECK=NO

HOME=/cygdrive/c/Documents and Settings/vshastri

HOMEDRIVE=C:

HOMEPATH=\Documents and Settings\vshastri

HOMESHARE=\\nas\users

……

OLDPWD=/cygdrive/c/cygwin/usr/bin

OS=Windows_NT

 

Despite all these setup, I am still not able to see the creation of .profile, .login etc

Please Help. How do I setup and access these files so I can ustomize my shell?

Thanks

Viji



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