On Wed, 2007-09-19 at 17:03 +0200, David Harel wrote: > I was surprised to find that in man bash the reference to > initialization > files is wrong. The bash manual says it reads initialization files > from > /etc/profile: > FILES > /bin/bash > The bash executable > /etc/profile > The systemwide initialization file, executed for login > shells
Most bash installations have /etc/profile source /etc/bashrc. This is not uncommon. You'll probably likely see the default ~/.bash_profile source ~/.bashrc. But it is sourcing /etc/profile else you wouldn't be getting half the environment variables that you're getting. -a -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
