bash is annoying in that way. From the manpage:
"When bash is invoked as an interactive login shell, it first reads and
executes commands from the file /etc/profile, if that file exists.
After reading that file, it looks for ~/.bash_profile,
~/.bash_login, and ~/.profile, in that order, and reads and executes
commands from the first one that exists and is readable. The
--noprofile option may be used when the shell is started to inhibit this
behavior. When a login shell exits, bash reads and executes commands
from the file ~/.bash_logout, if it exists.
"When an interactive shell that is not a login shell is started, bash
reads and executes commands from ~/.bashrc, if that file exists. This
may be inhibited by using the --norc option. The --rcfile file
option will force bash to read and execute commands from file instead of
~/.bashrc."
Which means it runs EITHER .profile (if its a login shell) OR .bashrc
(if its not). Which is annoying. (Of course, you could put a "source
.bashrc" in your profile.). csh does it the right way: .login and .cshrc
(actually, /etc/.login then .cshrc then .login) for login shells, and
just .cshrc for non-login shells.
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