On Tue, Dec 30, 2003 at 04:01:30AM +1100, George Ogata wrote: > Why does the mere existence of a `.bash_profile' affect the default > value of PATH?
This is from bash (1) in the section INVOCATION:
"When bash is invoked as an interactive login shell, or as
a non-inter- active shell with the --login option, it first
reads and executes com- mands from the file /etc/profile,
if that file exists. After reading that file, it looks for
~/.bash_profile, ~/.bash_login, and ~/.profile, in that order,
and reads and executes commands from the first one that exists
and is readable. The --noprofile option may be used when the
shell is started to inhibit this behavior."
so if ~/.bash_profile doesn't exist, bash will look at ~/.bash_login, if
that doesn't exist it will look at ~/.profile.
P.S. I hope this ends this thread and you don't get a hundred responses
telling you to RTFM :)
Hope that helps,
Bijan
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