On Tue, Dec 30, 2003 at 04:01:30AM +1100, George Ogata wrote: > Why does the mere existence of a `.bash_profile' affect the default > value of PATH? This is from bash (1) in the section INVOCATION: "When bash is invoked as an interactive login shell, or as a non-inter- active shell with the --login option, it first reads and executes com- mands from the file /etc/profile, if that file exists. After reading that file, it looks for ~/.bash_profile, ~/.bash_login, and ~/.profile, in that order, and reads and executes commands from the first one that exists and is readable. The --noprofile option may be used when the shell is started to inhibit this behavior." so if ~/.bash_profile doesn't exist, bash will look at ~/.bash_login, if that doesn't exist it will look at ~/.profile. P.S. I hope this ends this thread and you don't get a hundred responses telling you to RTFM :) Hope that helps, Bijan -- Bijan Soleymani <bijan@psq.com> http://www.crasseux.com
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