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From: Albert Hopkins <marduk@×××××××××××.org>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] man bash document doesn't match real life bash.
Date: Wed, 19 Sep 2007 13:52:36
Message-Id: 1190208991.31434.2.camel@localhost
In Reply to: [gentoo-user] man bash document doesn't match real life bash. by David Harel
1 On Wed, 2007-09-19 at 17:03 +0200, David Harel wrote:
2 > I was surprised to find that in man bash the reference to
3 > initialization
4 > files is wrong. The bash manual says it reads initialization files
5 > from
6 > /etc/profile:
7 > FILES
8 > /bin/bash
9 > The bash executable
10 > /etc/profile
11 > The systemwide initialization file, executed for login
12 > shells
13
14 Most bash installations have /etc/profile source /etc/bashrc. This is
15 not uncommon. You'll probably likely see the default ~/.bash_profile
16 source ~/.bashrc.
17
18 But it is sourcing /etc/profile else you wouldn't be getting half the
19 environment variables that you're getting.
20
21 -a
22
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