I'm switching to Cygwin from the bash shell that ships with Git for Windows, and for some strange reason the .bashrc file is not being sourced when I open a new Terminal. I have to
source .bashrc
manually just to get my normal settings. echo $0 $- returns -bash himBH
What could be the problem?
The minus at the start of $0 means that bash is being started as a login shell.
In this case, bash reads initialization commands from .bash_profile, not .bashrc.
The simplest fix is to create ~/.bash_profile if it doesn't already exist, and put
if [ -f ~/.bashrc ]; then
source ~/.bashrc
fi
at the top.
See also: What's the conf file reading between login and non-login shell?
echo $0 $-– Mikel Aug 03 '12 at 17:21