Apologies. It's mentioned a few paragraphs further down.
Can I suggest a change?
How about instead of:
When an interactive shell that is not a login shell is started
something like:
When a shell is started that is not a login shell, but is
either an interactive shell or a network shell
On Sat, Jun 2, 2012 at 10:15 AM, Mikel Ward <[email protected]> wrote:
> bash sources .bashrc even for some non-interactive shells.
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> For example with
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> echo \$- is $-
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> in ~/.bashrc, and shell set to /bin/bash (bash 4.2.28)
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> ssh -n -T localhost true
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> produces the output
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> $- is hBc
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> I assume this is caused by this code in shell.c
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> if (run_by_ssh || isnetconn (fileno (stdin)))
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> The man page says
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> When an interactive shell that is not a login shell is started,
> bash reads and executes commands from ~/.bashrc,
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> but makes no mention of the special handling for ssh and rsh.
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> This seems to have been the case since at least bash 2.02.
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> I'd argue this is a misfeature, but I guess that ship has sailed. Can
> the man page at least be updated?
>
> Thanks
