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Re: .profile
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Alan Shutko)
Fri Nov 8 17:10:34 1996
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From: Alan Shutko <ats@wydo125.wustl.edu>
Date: 08 Nov 1996 15:59:33 -0600
In-Reply-To: Borg's message of Fri, 08 Nov 1996 13:25:32 -0800
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>>>>> "B" == Borg <"vladimip "@iceonline.com> writes:
B> Daniel Chalef wrote:
>> Hi all
>>
>> My ~user/.profile files are not being executed by bash. This is
>> extremely annoying, and as yet, I have yet to work out why...
>>
>> Has anybody had any similar experiences with RH4.0? This happens on
>> two machines, both standard colgate.
B> Yeah right. Mine isn't executed either and I think that's because
B> the proper files are:
B> .bash_profile .bashrc
B> So, you should rename your .profile to one of the above. (I am not
B> sure which one).
Actually, no.
I'm including a bit of the man page below. Bash does source .profile
if it is a login interactive shell. If it is not sourcing .profile,
you don't have a login shell. This most often happens when you are
using an xterm. The man page for xterm shows how to make xterm get a
login shell.
There is no bug with Colgate, since my .profile is sourced fine.
From the manpage:
Login shells:
On login (subject to the -noprofile option):
if /etc/profile exists, source it.
if ~/.bash_profile exists, source it,
else if ~/.bash_login exists, source it,
else if ~/.profile exists, source it.
On exit:
if ~/.bash_logout exists, source it.
Non-login interactive shells:
On startup (subject to the -norc and -rcfile options):
if ~/.bashrc exists, source it.
Non-interactive shells:
On startup:
if the environment variable ENV is non-null, expand
it and source the file it names, as if the command
if [ "$ENV" ]; then . $ENV; fi
had been executed, but do not use PATH to search
for the pathname. When not started in Posix mode, bash
looks for BASH_ENV before ENV.
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