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Ray Jones: Re: sun4 9.0.14: /usr/athena/lib/init/bash_login

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Greg Hudson)
Wed Oct 3 09:16:50 2001

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From: Ray Jones <thouis@MIT.EDU>
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Greg Hudson <ghudson@MIT.EDU> writes:

> No, it only evalutes to true when the XSESSION variable is set.
> ${foo+bar} evaluates to bar if foo is set, or nothing if foo is not
> set.

Ah, my mistake.

Nevermind.  I think I encountered problems trying to start "bash
- --login" or somesuch, and my attempts to fix it broke its behavior in
other ways.  I put everything back the way it started out, and things
seem fine.

Sorry for the trouble,
Ray Jones

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