Cygwin won’t read .bashrc?

Add the following line of code to the very bottom of /etc/profile

. "$HOME/.bashrc"


This will execute the .bashrc file from your home directory.

If you are not sure where your home directory is type the following into a cygwin console:

echo $HOME

If your user folder contains a space; you may have to place the .bashrc file into the root directory and you may still have the calling line into /etc/profile.