On 11/18/2010 1:40 PM, Alan McKinnon wrote: > Apparently, though unproven, at 17:52 on Thursday 18 November 2010, Mike > Edenfield did opine thusly: > >> Is there something special about the file name >> /etc/portage/package.use/java ? For some reason, if I create this file >> to hold USE flags for my java packages, bash tries to source it when I >> log in. As far as I can tell this is the only filename that gets this >> wierd treatment:
> grep -r is your friend here. Most likely it happened when you typed an > "echo > file" type command sometime and botched the redirectors Huh. Found it, but now I'm even more confused than before: platypus ~ # ls -alF /etc/bash_completion.d/java lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 30 Nov 16 08:18 /etc/bash_completion.d/java -> //etc/portage/package.use/java I'm pretty sure I didn't actually make that softlink myself, and I have no idea where it came from: platypus ~ # equery belongs /etc/bash_completion.d/java * Searching for /etc/bash_completion.d/java ... platypus ~ # --Mike