Re: [tlug] Bashing away at Unix

[Attila Kinali <attila@example.com>]

On Wed, 12 Mar 2008 18:40:41 +0900
Brian Chandler <brian@example.com> wrote:

> Have I guessed wrong what .profile does?

No, but probably .profile was never read.

Depending on how your shell is started, it
reads different files. See the section INVOCATION
in the bash manpage.

			Attila Kinali
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