Can I get (the new) bash on Windows 10 to load .profile

Question

I installed the new subsystem for Linux on Windows 10 (which comes with the Windows anniversary update), and started playing around with it.

What I noticed is that starting the shell (ubuntu bash) does not load .profile or .bash_profile, even though the .profile file exists. Is there a fix?

(And can someone with a lot of reputation make the windows-bash tag?)

Solution

By default, this release of Ubuntu-on-windows loads the file named .bashrc.

You can either put the script or add the below line to .bashrc (and create .bashrc if it is non-existent):

. ~/.profile

Note: If .bashrc is sourced from .profile, you may want to comment it out to prevent bash endlessly looping.

Comments

[Benjamin W.]

That tag exists already: ubuntu-on-windows.

[dhr_p]

FYI: Feel free to move this to Super User if you guys prefer.

[dhr_p]

Thanks luk3yx; but I mentioned specifically that this fails with Ubuntu-on-windows.

[dhr_p]

Ah, it actually works. .bashrc is included/run, even though the system appears to be setup the other way around; as the following lines are included in the default ~/.profile if [ -n "$BASH_VERSION" ]; then # include .bashrc if it exists if [ -f "$HOME/.bashrc" ]; then . "$HOME/.bashrc" fi fi

[Ryan E]

In case it isn't obvious, you probably want to remove/comment the lines that source .bashrc from your .profile otherwise you will wind up in a loop when .profile is sourced in .bashrc