[18697] in Athena Bugs
Re: Bash init files suggestion
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Stephen Gildea)
Fri Jan 26 13:49:59 2001
Message-Id: <200101261849.NAA16711@mass-toolpike.mit.edu>
To: Greg Hudson <ghudson@MIT.EDU>
cc: bugs@MIT.EDU, gildea@MIT.EDU
In-Reply-To: Message from ghudson@MIT.EDU of 24 Jan 2001 19:59:50 EST
<200101250059.TAA17359@egyptian-gods.MIT.EDU>
Date: Fri, 26 Jan 2001 13:49:55 -0500
From: Stephen Gildea <gildea@MIT.EDU>
Thank you for your reply. I'm pleased to know my items will get fixed.
> Actually, the dotfile you want is .startup.tty, a la tcsh.
Yikes. I guess I don't really understand the many dot-files Athena
runs for me at start-up.
> We don't really want multiple names for the same dotfile, so we won't
> have .bash_login.mine (just as we don't have .cshrc.mine).
We don't have a .cshrc.mine? That's news to me. (Uh, how many years
behind does that make me?)
> > (Or, more readably, [ ! "$TERM" ].)
>
> This form of test won't work for all values of $TERM (such as "-e").
Doesn't work in traditional sh, but POSIX specifies that it has to
work, and it does work in Bash.
Thanks again,
< Stephen
