Re: Why is this not working?

From: Barry Margolin (barmar_at_alum.mit.edu)
Date: 05/28/04

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    In article <slrncbepev.14o.stephane.chazelas@spam.is.invalid>,
     Stephane CHAZELAS <this.address@is.invalid> wrote:

    > 2004-05-28, 11:30(-04), Barry Margolin:
    > >
    > >> But if you make it a login shell, it won't read .bashrc, will it? It will
    > >> read .profile and .bash_login...
    > >
    > > No, login shells execute *both* .profile and .bashrc.
    > >
    >
    > Only if you have a ". .bashrc" in your ".profile".
    > That's not very intuitive, I agree.

    You're right. I was thinking of csh/tcsh, which executes both .login
    and .cshrc when a login shell starts up.

    I wonder why bash did it this way. .profile is for things you want done
    once per login session, but .bashrc is for things that should be done in
    every interactive shell. Why wouldn't you want the latter to be done in
    a login shell? For the rare cases where you don't want this, there
    could be something like "set nobashrc" to suppress loading the .bashrc
    after .profile. 

    -- 
Barry Margolin, barmar@alum.mit.edu
Arlington, MA
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