[gentoo-dev] .bashrc and .bash_profile

[Christian Loitsch]

before opening a bug report, I wanted to be sure, that the following is
correct.

/etc/skel/.bashrc says that it is sourced by all bash shells whether
interactive or not.

But "man bash" says:
When  an  interactive  shell  that is not a login shell is
started, bash reads and executes commands from  ~/.bashrc,
if  that  file exists. 

.bashrc is sourced by .bash_profile
As .bash_profile is sourced for all login shells:

== manpage: ==
When bash is invoked as an interactive login shell, or  as
a  non-interactive shell with the --login option, it first
reads and executes commands from the file /etc/profile, if
that  file  exists.  After reading that file, it looks for
~/.bash_profile,  [snip]
====

it should probably say:
# This file is sourced by all interactive bash shells on startup,
# whether
# login or not.  This file *should generate no output* or it will break
# the
# scp and rcp commands.


I also would tend to give the alias' into the .bashrc.

This is also to e.g. allow "exec screen" inside the .bash_profile

Please tell me, if I should fill out a bug-report.

christian