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. -- Colin Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]