Re: Configuring a non-root-user profile
On Wed, Jan 07, 2004 at 01:20:28PM -0700, s. keeling wrote:
> Re-reading it now, this chapter appears very confusing. According to
> it, the automagically bit refers to .bashrc being run for sub-shells.
> Then it tells you to put as little as possible in .bash_profile and
> source .bashrc from the former.
I definitely agree with that; I've been doing it for years and it's
always worked very well. For interactive things (especially those that
produce output, or you'll break e.g. scp), you can wrap them in a guard
like this:
case $- in
*i*)
# interactive-only stuff goes here
;;
esac
Cheers,
--
Colin Watson [cjwatson@flatline.org.uk]
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