When I am running Cygwin.bat I've got my all my custom stuff working from .bash_profile but when I am just running bash none of my stuff from .bash_profile is working and I am just got wired prefix like root@comp:/mnt/c/cygwin64# (as my current dir)
Is there any way to achieve the same result when running bash as I got when running Cygwin.bat
the content of Cygwin.bat is:
@echo off
C:
chdir C:\Tools\cygwin64\bin
bash --login -i
As pointed out by @matzeri in the comment, cygwin.bat invokes bash with the --login option which creates an interactive login shell. And bash without the --login option creates an interactive shell which is not a login shell.
According to bash man page:
When bash is invoked as an interactive login shell, or as a non-interactive shell with the
--loginoption, it first reads and executes commands from the file/etc/profile, if that file exists. After reading that file, it looks for~/.bash_profile,~/.bash_login, and~/.profile, in that order, and reads and executes commands from the first one that exists and is readable. The--noprofileoption may be used when the shell is started to inhibit this behavior.When an interactive shell that is not a login shell is started, bash reads and executes commands from
~/.bashrc, if that file exists. This may be inhibited by using the--norcoption. The--rcfilefile option will force bash to read and execute commands from file instead of~/.bashrc.
My ~/.bash_profile has only one line:
source ~/.bashrc
and I put all conf in ~/.bashrc.
