Reality check on bash behavior.

[Jeff Vian]

On Mon, 2006-01-16 at 11:04 +0000, Paul Howarth wrote:
> Jeff Vian wrote:
> > I know that on Linux a bash shell parses .profile _and_ ~/.bash_profile.
> > I cannot speak for differences in OS X, although I would not expect any.
> > 
> > AIUI the .profile contains configurations that are used by all and the
> > ~/.bash_profile makes user specific modifications.
> 
> Sure you don't mean /etc/profile when you write .profile ?
> 
> Paul.
> 
Thanks for the wakeup slap Paul. That is exactly what I meant.
Time for more coffee <grin>.