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From: Andrew DeFaria <ADeFaria AT Salira DOT com>
Subject: Re: bash 2.05b-8 doesnot execute .bashrc even if HOME is defined
 and .bashrc is under both ~/ and /
Date: Wed, 08 Jan 2003 17:34:12 -0800
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Tianming Kong wrote:

> Both Andrew's method (renaming .bashrc to .bash_login) and Todorovic's 
> method (explictly sourcing .bashrc in .profile) worked.

Difference is that using .bash_login is the way it's supposed to be as 
per the bash man page and does not require that you remember to "fix up" 
/etc/profile...



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