Tnx to MarkL for the reminder to keep scope restricted, and how-to. Kudos to MarkC for the why-you-do-it-that-way.
Each of you who responded to my query has contributed to a better understanding than have 7 or 8 books, each promising guru-hood. On Tue, 30 Oct 2001 08:13:56 -0500 (EST), you wrote: > >From the bash manpage, > > When bash is invoked as an interactive login shell, or as > a non-interactive shell with the --login option, it first > reads and executes commands from the file /etc/profile, if > that file exists. After reading that file, it looks for > ~/.bash_profile, ~/.bash_login, and ~/.profile, in that > order, and reads and executes commands from the first one > that exists and is readable. > >The manpage for whatever shell you are using should reveal what files it >reads, hence where its path is coming from. > >-- Mark
