On Wed, Mar 29, 2017 at 04:10:14PM +0200, Torka Noda wrote: > Well, sorry for the confusion, I'll stop here. I think it's > weird for Bash's positional parameters, and the whole argument > list if modified with '-s', not to be accessible from > initialization files, but `env` does what I want relatively > simply compared to the tricks used by other people on the web, > and I'll be content with that.
I'm still unclear on what you actually wanted to achieve. Bash doesn't normally *receive* any arguments when it's invoked as an interactive shell, because the things that would invoke it are usually terminal emulators that simply execute $SHELL, or shell escapes from terminal programs like vi, which again simply execute $SHELL. Specifyng behavior through environment variables seems sensible to me. They're one of the few things available to interactive shells, being set in your X session initialization, or your login profile, and then passed down *through* your window manager, or your terminal-based editor/mail/news reader, or both.
