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From: David Harel <hareldvd@××××××××××××.com>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: [gentoo-user] man bash document doesn't match real life bash.
Date: Wed, 19 Sep 2007 13:10:44
Message-Id: 46F13A34.4080201@ergolight-sw.com
1 Hi,
2
3 I was surprised to find that in man bash the reference to initialization
4 files is wrong. The bash manual says it reads initialization files from
5 /etc/profile:
6 FILES
7 /bin/bash
8 The bash executable
9 /etc/profile
10 The systemwide initialization file, executed for login shells
11
12
13 Where real life uses /etc/bash/bashrc
14 This part is taken from strace dump: strace bash -i
15 open("/etc/bash/bashrc", O_RDONLY|O_LARGEFILE) = 3
16
17 I use bash from gentoo package:
18 $ equery belongs /usr/share/man/man1/bash.1.bz2
19 [ Searching for file(s) /usr/share/man/man1/bash.1.bz2 in *... ]
20 app-shells/bash-3.2_p17 (/usr/share/man/man1/bash.1.bz2)
21
22 $ equery belongs /bin/bash
23 [ Searching for file(s) /bin/bash in *... ]
24 app-shells/bash-3.2_p17 (/bin/bash)
25
26
27 --
28 Regards.
29
30 David Harel,
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Re: [gentoo-user] man bash document doesn't match real life bash. Neil Bothwick <neil@××××××××××.uk>
Re: [gentoo-user] man bash document doesn't match real life bash. Albert Hopkins <marduk@×××××××××××.org>