Re: login shell VS interactive shell

2011-10-14 Thread Joao Ferreira Gmail
On Fri, 2011-10-14 at 08:53 +0100, Chris Davies wrote: > Joao Ferreira Gmail wrote: > > I read a text about bash that mentions a difference between "login > > shell" and "interactive shell". > > > I'm affraid I don not know the difference. Can anyone enlighten me ? > Hello, Thanks everybody fo

Re: login shell VS interactive shell

2011-10-14 Thread Chris Davies
Joao Ferreira Gmail wrote: > I read a text about bash that mentions a difference between "login > shell" and "interactive shell". > I'm affraid I don not know the difference. Can anyone enlighten me ? I've always found bash to be singularly unhelpful with its approach to .bash_profile and .bashr

Re: login shell VS interactive shell

2011-10-13 Thread Bob Proulx
Joao Ferreira Gmail wrote: > I read a text about bash that mentions a difference between "login > shell" and "interactive shell". > > I'm affraid I don not know the difference. Can anyone enlighten me ? > > text I read was: > > "When Bash starts executes the commands in a variety of different >

Re: login shell VS interactive shell

2011-10-13 Thread Raf Czlonka
On Thu, Oct 13, 2011 at 10:49:24PM BST, Joao Ferreira Gmail wrote: > Hello all, > > I read a text about bash that mentions a difference between "login > shell" and "interactive shell". > > I'm affraid I don not know the difference. Can anyone enlighten me ? Login shell is the shell executed at l

login shell VS interactive shell

2011-10-13 Thread Joao Ferreira Gmail
Hello all, I read a text about bash that mentions a difference between "login shell" and "interactive shell". I'm affraid I don not know the difference. Can anyone enlighten me ? text I read was: "When Bash starts executes the commands in a variety of different scripts. When started as an inte