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From: Donna and Matthew Persico <persico_family AT acedsl DOT com>
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Date: Wed, 27 Nov 2002 10:50:21 -0500
Subject: Re: bash isn't running my .bashrc!
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On Wed, 27 Nov 2002 15:33:56 +0000 (UTC), "Soren A" <soren_andersen AT fastmail DOT fm>said:
>Actually, my .bashrc is running fine. The Subject: was a honeypot
>strategy. 
>
>AFAICT by reading the Fine Documentation for bash, an *interactive*
>shell (one invoked with the option flag "-i") does *not* automatically
>cause the initialization to include source'ing of .bashrc in the user
>$HOME dir. I have gotten the impression that some people think it does. 

Probably because many folks have used/are using Korn shell where if, I think, you do

export ENV=~/.kshrc 

then ~/.kshrc is run at each invocation, interactive or not, login or not.

I think.

So, what made you decide to post this?

--
Matthew O. Persico



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