On Thu, 19 Aug 1999, Eric Gillespie, Jr. wrote: > No, you're thinking of .profile and .bash_profile, which are only read in > login shells.
True. (Same holds for .bash_login. Note that only one of these is ever read: the first one found, in this order: .bash_profile, .bash_login, .profile.) > .bashrc is read by bash in all interactive shells I don't believe this is correct. .bashrc is only read by interactive non-login shells, and is *not* read by login shells.