On Wed, Jan 07, 2004 at 09:29:45AM -0700, s. keeling wrote:
> Incoming from s. keeling:
> > The last time I read O'Reilly's Learning the Bash Shell, it said
> > .bash_profile is run on all logins.  .bashrc is run on top of that
> > (automagically) for all _interactive_ logins (which is why aliases
> 
> Forget that automagically bit.  I just tried it and it fails miserably.

That would be because, if you're quoting the book correctly, it's wrong.
:) See the INVOCATION section of bash(1) instead.

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Colin Watson                                  [EMAIL PROTECTED]


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