Reality check on bash behavior.
John Summerfied
debian at herakles.homelinux.org
Tue Jan 17 19:49:28 UTC 2006
Paul Howarth wrote:
> John Summerfied wrote:
>>>
>> Some distros do have ~/.profile (I think Debian does).
>
>
> Yes, but that's still a user-specific file, not one that applies to all
> users.
>
> Bash will read ~/.profile if it's a login shell and neither
> ~/.bash_profile nor ~/.bash_login exist. See the INVOCATION section of
> the bash manpage.
and if ~/.bash_profile sources ~/.profile (as I said), then it's
distro-wide. My point.
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Cheers
John
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