Chet Ramey wrote:
not a standard part of the build, so it's not in the man page. Putting a mention of it in would cause more problems that it would solve.
--- Maybe, but a mention of it might not. Some verbiage that some implementations of bash "may implement a system-wide 'bashrc' equivalent, that by default, is called '/etc/bash.bashrc'. More information is available in the source". ??? Yeah...it might confuse some people. But certainly no more than having /etc/bash.bashrc call /etc/profile, by default and having /etc/profile call "$HOME/.bashrc" by default (which ends up with some "distributions" (SuSE10.2) calling .bashrc twice with each bash invocation (ug!) (not that this is "bash's" fault :-)). _______________________________________________ Bug-bash mailing list Bug-bash@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-bash