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It is a behavior that is peculiar to bash. I agree that bash is the most
Stallmann-compliant, as it was Bourne Again to replace sh.

Nobody said anything about csh. (Well, I didn't, and I'm a nobody.) On os
x csh IS tcsh.

It leads to behavior on OS X that you don't see in normal X-windows-based
unix distributions, i.e, due to a peculiarity of OS X that is not
Stallmanesque, bash behaves in a different manner. That which is different
is the lack of a root x-window.

If everyone would just use zsh, war starvation and disease would be
peculiarities of ancient history.



Tim Gruene wrote:
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>> Are you using bash?  It is a peculiarity of bash that it will run either
>> .bashrc or .bash_profile but not both.  In Apple's rootless X11
>> environment,
>
> This is not a peculiarity but a feature which is well documented (info
> bash) and does not lead to unexpected behaviour. The documentation also
> says
> "   So, typically, your `~/.bash_profile' contains the line
>       `if [ -f ~/.bashrc ]; then . ~/.bashrc; fi' "
>
> csh and derivatives are not POSIX compliant and therefore are deprecated.
> Tim
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