Re: [tlug] Bashing away at Unix

[Godwin Stewart <gstewart@example.com>]

On Fri, 14 Mar 2008 17:32:43 +0900, "Nguyen Vu Hung" <vuhung16plus
+shape@example.com> wrote:

> > No.  Any Posix compliant shell will read .profile under certain
> > conditions.
>
> For RHEL 4, bash 3.2 doesn't check $HOME/.profile

In Slackware, bash first reads /etc/profile and then any *.sh files
in /etc/profile.d.

It then reads ~/.bash_profile if invoked with the --login option, or
~/.bashrc otherwise.

At no point does it read ~/.profile unless instructed to by any of the
other scripts processed when it starts.

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