Incoming from s. keeling: > > The last time I read O'Reilly's Learning the Bash Shell, it said > .bash_profile is run on all logins. .bashrc is run on top of that > (automagically) for all _interactive_ logins (which is why aliases Forget that automagically bit. I just tried it and it fails miserably. -- Any technology distinguishable from magic is insufficiently advanced. (*) http://www.spots.ab.ca/~keeling - -