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Re: bash scripts and files



On Wed, 09 Jan 2008 12:03:07 +0000
michael <cs@networkingnewsletter.org.uk> wrote:

> > .bashrc and .bash_profile are different. They are only reasonably
> > invoked by a bash shell, so it is safe to assume they are written
> > using bash syntax. They are, after all, configuration files for
> > bash, so what other language would they be written in?
> 
> "reasonably"?!
> and where is it stated they are different?
> surely they should have the !# at the start too
> it's this implicitness that upsets me!

They aren't even executable, so why should they have hash-bang?

--D.


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