On 1/13/14 10:25 AM, Audrius Butkevicius wrote:
> Bash Version: 4.2
> Patch Level: 45
> Release Status: release
>
> Description:
>
> Login shell not setting HOME variable when using -l option,
> but is set when using - as argument zero. This is not
> differentiated in the documentation,
>
> "A login shell is one whose first character of argument zero
> is a -, or one started with the --login option."
>
> therefore I assume it is a bug.
It's not; this is the way bash has behaved for a very long time (at least
twenty years). A related question is whether bash should be setting HOME
at all; this is something that should be handled by the invoking process.
Chet
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