-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 John R. Graham wrote: > But, hasn't anyone realized that bash is _broken_ if this file doesn't > exist? Quoting from the upstream-provided man page, "When an > interactive shell that is not a login shell is started, bash reads and > executes commands from ~/.bashrc, if that file exists." Is that really > the intention here? To break upstream-defined behavior?
John, From the section you quoted there, there's absolutely no indication that a .bashrc file *must* exist, in fact, they even explicitly add the "if that file exists" to show acceptance of the fact that it might not... Mike 5:) -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.7 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFG8l6bu7rWomwgFXoRAvPwAJ9VFFL6rfLrIgtJw2h7F/WfK9ohwgCdEarz AtyrRbnXan5cAlCsOL1LL7I= =k/u0 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list