URL:
<https://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?64378>
Summary: screen manpage has misleading bash example
Group: GNU Screen
Submitter: None
Submitted: Mon 03 Jul 2023 06:40:44 PM UTC
Category: Documentation
Severity: 3 - Normal
Priority: 5 - Normal
Status: None
Privacy: Public
Assigned to: None
Open/Closed: Open
Release: 4.9.0
Discussion Lock: Any
Fixed Release: None
Planned Release: None
Work Required: None
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Date: Mon 03 Jul 2023 06:40:44 PM UTC By: Anonymous
Bug fixed in Ubuntu, discussion at
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/screen/+bug/1986839
where they asked me to submit the bug upstream. Patch is included there as
well; savannah will not let me attach diff here.
Quoted from that linked page:
The screen(1) page in version 4.09.00 describes the 'shell' command/option
ending with
[...] If the command begins with a '-' character, the shell
will be started as a login-shell. Typical shells do only
minimal initialization when not started as a login-shell.
E.g. Bash will not read your ~/.bashrc unless it is a login-shell.
This is incorrect and misleading. According to the bash(1) page, it only looks
for ~/.bash_profile (and similar files) for a login shell, but looks for
~/.bashrc when "an interactive shell that is not a login shell is started".
Obviously minor priority, but should be trivial to fix since it's just an
example filename.
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