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Date: Tue, 26 Mar 2002 14:26:41 -0500
To: David Means <dmeans AT the-means DOT net>, cygwin AT cygwin DOT com
From: "Larry Hall (RFK Partners, Inc)" <lhall AT rfk DOT com>
Subject: Re: .bashrc not getting sourced?
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Wow.  That was allot of discussion and conjecture on this topic.  Did anyone
think of looking at the GNU bash documentation before posting?  

http://www.lns.cornell.edu/public/COMP/info/bash/bashref_7.html#SEC65

Seems to me this answers the question quite well about where this kind of 
check is recommended.  And no post was required to get the information. ;-)

BTW, the check was removed from /etc/profile because bash is not the only
shell that reads that file.

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At 01:52 PM 3/26/2002, David Means wrote:
>I believe that .bash_login, .bash_profile  or .profile is the file
>you're wanting to use in this instance.
>
>man bash
>{ snip }
>
>      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.
>
>{ snip }
>
>If you're realling wanting .bashrc to be sourced on a login-shell, then
>you'll either need to set BASH_ENV=$HOME/.bashrc, or source it from your
>$HOME/.profile, or from /etc/profile.
>
>David
>
>
>
>On Tue, 2002-03-26 at 11:37, Roland Glenn McIntosh wrote:
> > I just did a recent brand new install yesterday and I noticed that /etc/profile no longer contains a line like:
> > 
> >       test -f ./.bashrc && . ./.bashrc
> > 
> > It took me a second to figure out why .bashrc wasn't getting read (I thought it happened automatically by the shell) until I compared it to an older "working" cygwin install.
> > 
> > Is there a specific reason for that missing line in /etc/profile, or could it have been an oversight?  I did notice that my redhat 7 system's /etc/profile doesn't seem to include such a line.
> > -rgm
> > 
> > 
> > 
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