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This is weird. I had to wipe my Windows 7 disk and am rebuilding it. I installed Cygwin and opened up the terminal. To my surprise, it did not start out by telling me it was copying the bash configuration files. When I did 'ls -a' on my HOME directory, there was no .bashrc. I figured I'd just copy it over from the /etc/skel directory, but when I changed to that directory it was empty. At this point I'm not sure what to do next. I know there are example files of .bashrc and .profile on the internet, but it would be nice if I could fill /etc/skel with the proper contents. I'm a little reluctant, but at this point I don't have a lot of time invested and could try uninstalling Cygwin and then reinstalling. Or I could just go get the example files from the internet because I'm going to be editing them anyway and don't need the /etc/skel to set up other users. Recommendations?

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$ find /etc/defaults -name "*bash*"
/etc/defaults/etc/bash.bashrc
/etc/defaults/etc/bash.bash_logout
/etc/defaults/etc/bash_completion.d
/etc/defaults/etc/skel/.bashrc
/etc/defaults/etc/skel/.bash_profile

these files are part of the base-files package

$ cygcheck -f /etc/defaults/etc/bash.bashrc /etc/defaults/etc/skel/.bash_profile
base-files-4.3-2
base-files-4.3-2
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  • $ find /etc/defaults -name "*bash*" -> File not found - *bash* -- The find command is historically troublesome, because it is usually overwritten by Windows' find. Make sure you use the right one (i.e.which find), try /usr/bin/find instead, if Windows overrode it.
    – Domi
    Apr 27, 2021 at 8:25
  • $ /usr/bin/find /etc/defaults -name "*bash*" -> /usr/bin/find: '/etc/defaults': No such file or directory
    – Domi
    Apr 27, 2021 at 8:25

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