On Thu, Sep 05, 2002 at 11:46:58AM +0530, Prashanth wrote:
> ####[ Linux One Stanza Tip (LOST) ]###########################
>
> Sub : BASH and non-login shells LOST #099
>
> For non login-in shells (like xterm and rxvt) under BASH, the
> file which gets read is ".bash_profile". Settings in .bashrc
> may not be otherwise effective under X. Copy contents of your
> .bashrc to .bash_profile to enable customised resources.
>
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Hey this is totally the other way round. For non login shells, the file
that gets read is .bashrc. Its .bash_profile (and .bash_login/.profile,
if .bash_profile does not exist) for login shells. Quote from bash's
man page:
When bash is invoked as an interactive login shell, or as a
non-interactive shell with the --login option, it first reads
and executes commands from the file /etc/profile, if that file
exists. After reading that file, it looks for ~/.bash_profile,
~/.bash_login, and ~/.profile, in that order, and reads
and executes commands from the first one that exists and is
readable. The --noprofile option may be used when the shell is
started to inhibit this behavior.
And later:
When an interactive shell that is not a login shell is started,
bash reads and executes commands from ~/.bashrc, if that file
exists. This may be inhibited by using the --norc option.
The --rcfile file option will force bash to read and execute
commands from file instead of ~/.bashrc.
For non-interactive non-login shells (say, to execute a shell script via
the shebang mechanism), the file that gets read is specified in $BASH_ENV.
Binand
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