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Re: Cygwin command line takes a long time to start

On Fri, Jul 23, 2010 at 3:53 AM, David Antliff  wrote:
> How would one go about debugging the bash or mintty startup before
> .bash_profile is read?

Duplicate your shortcut which launches bash and add -x to the bash
options (which should include -l a.k.a. --login)
e.g.
C:\cygwin17\bin\mintty.exe -h error /usr/bin/bash --login -x

If using cygwin.bat, add -x after
bash --login -i


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