Re: [tlug] Bashing away at Unix

["Nguyen Vu Hung" <vuhung16plus+shape@example.com>]

2008/3/14, SL Baur <steve@example.com>:
> On 3/12/08, Godwin Stewart <gstewart@example.com> wrote:
>
>  > ICBW but I believe .profile is only read by the Bourne shell. If you're
>  >  using a different shell, such as tcsh then .profile will never be read
>  >  anyway.
>
>
> No.  Any Posix compliant shell will read .profile under certain conditions.
For RHEL 4, bash 3.2 doesn't check $HOME/.profile
# Though it does read /etc/profile.d/* becasue /etc/bashrc tells it to do so

You can verify whether your bash read .profile by running

$bash
$strace bash
Ctrl+D, and grep for .profile.


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