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Date: Thu, 20 Nov 2003 10:38:08 -0500 (EST)
From: Wirawan Purwanto <wirawan AT camelot DOT physics DOT wm DOT edu>
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To: Morche Matthias <Matthias DOT Morche AT szm DOT de>
cc: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com
Subject: RE: Problem with noninteractive bash initialization
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Yes, BUT I suppose that the shell used for executing a script is a
NON-interactive shell, because it doesn't take _commands_ from the user,
rather from the script. Isn't this right? Therefore it does not agree with
the prescribed behavior in the documentation.

Wirawan

On Thu, 20 Nov 2003, Morche Matthias wrote:

> Dunno where Your read, but the document You referenced says: "When an
> interactive shell that is not a login shell is started, Bash reads and
> executes commands from `~/.bashrc', if that file exists."
> 
>   matthias
> 
> 
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Wirawan Purwanto [mailto:wirawan AT camelot DOT physics DOT wm DOT edu]
> > Sent: Wednesday, November 19, 2003 9:47 PM
> > To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com
> > Subject: Problem with noninteractive bash initialization
> > 
> > 
> > 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
> ..
> 

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