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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:)
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