Mail Archives: cygwin/2003/11/19/15:49:02
Hi,
How should a noninteractive bash begin (i.e. for executing a script)?
Should bash read init files like ~/.bashrc, ~/.bash_profile, or
/etc/profile? According to bash documentation on
http://www.gnu.org/manual/bash-2.05a/html_mono/bashref.html#SEC62 ,
NO initialization files would be read. But cygwin's bash (version
2.05b.0(1)-release) DOES reads and executes ~/.bashrc BEFORE executing the
actual script itself. Why is this? Is this not a deviation from the
prescribed behavior, or what?
<---- long explanation
To find out whether the .bashrc is executed, simply create a trivial
script "xyz". For simplicity let's assume it contains only an echo
command:
#!/bin/bash
echo "Hellow"
Then execute:
$ bash -x xyz
According to BASH standard, it should result in the following printout:
+ echo 'Hellow'
Hellow
This is what happens on my linux box (a Mandrake 9.1, with bash version
2.05b.0(1)-release also). But in my cygwin window [under Windows 2000], it
spits out lots of initialization commands from ~/.bashrc before finally
executing the echo "Hellow" statement.
end long explanation ---->
Can somebody explain what's wrong with this?
Wirawan
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