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Re: /etc/profile in BASH
- To: "Earnie Boyd" <earnie_boyd at yahoo dot com>, "Masterson Dave" <dmasters at rational dot com>, <cygwin at sources dot redhat dot com>
- Subject: Re: /etc/profile in BASH
- From: "Erik Nolte" <enolte at campuspipeline dot com>
- Date: Fri, 29 Sep 2000 12:41:44 -0600
- References: <20000929182535.7375.qmail@web124.yahoomail.com>
> > I didn't realize that a login BASH doesn't execute ~/.bashrc. Be that
as it
> > may, I think it should be the decision of ~/.bash_profile (or
~/.profile)
> > whether to execute ~/.bashrc -- *NOT* /etc/profile. Putting this into
> > /etc/profile makes it too BASH-centric. What about the [T]CSH users?
Also,
> > what about ~/.bash_login files (as described in the MAN page)?
> >
>
> IIRC [t]csh doesn't user /etc/profile. Use the source, Luke. (tm)
But sh and ksh do. I don't want my sh's executing .bashrc and failing on
things like alias and 'export var=..."
- Erik
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