On Mar 5, 2012, at 12:49 PM, Justin C. Walker wrote: > To clarify this, I believe that the man page says that .bash_profile is > checked for a login shell, and that .bashrc is checked for a non-login, > interactive shell. > > I'm not at a 10.6 system right now to verify that, but it is the case on > 10.7, and I have my "profile/rc" set up with that assumption on both 10.6 and > 10.7.
Thanks, Mr. Curmudgeon ;-) That is indeed what I read in the man page, but my intuitive sense is that Terminal should open a "non-login, interactive shell" — after all, I am able to start entering UNIX commands interactively, and the shell does not prompt for a login. But when I actually try it out, the contents of .bashrc have no effect in Terminal/bash, but the contents of .bash_profile are processed. I conclude that something about a deeper understanding of Mac OS X and/or UNIX is eluding me. Jim -- To post to this group, send email to sage-support@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to sage-support+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/sage-support URL: http://www.sagemath.org
