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From: "Masterson, Dave" <dmasters AT rational DOT com>
To: "'Earnie Boyd'" <earnie_boyd AT yahoo DOT com>
Cc: "'cygwin AT sources DOT redhat DOT com'" <cygwin AT sources DOT redhat DOT com>
Subject: RE: /etc/profile in BASH
Date: Fri, 29 Sep 2000 12:41:06 -0700
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> > Also, in order to be compatible with other UNIX system 
> > shells (Kshell), a user may have setup ~/.profile 
> > particularly for KShell and ~/.bash_profile
> > particularly for BASH.  Since BASH will not read
> > ~/.profile if it finds ~/.bash_profile (or ~/.bash_login), 
> 
> I just tested this.  Bash reads both ~/.profile and ~/.bash_profile 
> or ~/.bash_login.  If both ~/.bash_profile and ~/.bash_login are 
> present then only ~/.bash_profile is executed.

If true, that sounds like a bug in BASH.  AFAIK, ~/.bash_profile (and
~/.bash_login) were setup to provide a simple way of ensuring that special
BASH functionality could be isolated from other shells.  According to the
BASH man page, after /etc/profile on login, BASH is only supposed to read
*one of* ~/.bash_profile, ~/.bash_login, and ~/.profile (in that order).
Are you sure your test wasn't skewed because of the "source" in /etc/profile
(or elsewhere)?
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