Incoming from Colin Watson: > 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.
Re-reading it now, this chapter appears very confusing. According to it, the automagically bit refers to .bashrc being run for sub-shells. Then it tells you to put as little as possible in .bash_profile and source .bashrc from the former. So, I agree. man bash instead. -- Any technology distinguishable from magic is insufficiently advanced. (*) http://www.spots.ab.ca/~keeling - - -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
