Previously Raul Miller wrote: > Wichert Akkerman <wakkerma@wiggy.ml.org> wrote: > > login shells and normal shells both read some global files on startup. > > There are ways to make them include a common file. Indeed most shells > > have a command called source which does just that. > > Hmm.. but when I presented the possibility of altering non-login shells: I was referring to something else: a shell which is used as a login-shell can also be invoked as a non login-shell: if a shell is spawned by login it's a login-shell and might behave different then when it's created under other circumstances. See the manpages for bash for an example of this. We're just confusing terminology here. Wichert. -- ============================================================================== This combination of bytes forms a message written to you by Wichert Akkerman. E-Mail: wakkerma@wi.LeidenUniv.nl WWW: http://www.wi.leidenuniv.nl/~wichert/
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