On 2022-09-23 at 13:20, Perry Smith wrote: > I have Debian bullseye installed in a container. My reading of the man page[1] > is to use the -i flag to get dash to read $HOME/.profile. But that doesn’t seem > to work for me. Instead, -l needs to be used. At least, that seems to be true for > me using Docker. Does this seem to be correct? If so, I will open a bug report > but thought I would check here since Docker might be the root cause somehow. > > Thank you, > Perry > [1] https://manpages.debian.org/bullseye/dash/dash.1.en.html From that man page (or my local copy of it, anyway, which at a brief comparison seems to be the same text as what's at that URL): >> If no args are present and if the standard input of the shell is >> connected to a terminal (or if the -i flag is set), and the -c >> option is not present, the shell is considered an interactive >> shell. An interactive shell generally prompts before each command >> and handles programming and command errors differently (as >> described below). This states that '-i' makes it an interactive shell. >> When first starting, the shell inspects argument 0, and if it >> begins with a dash ‘-’, the shell is also considered a login shell. >> This is normally done automatically by the system when the user >> first logs in. A login shell first reads commands from the files >> /etc/profile and .profile if they exist. This states that if the shell is also a login shell, .profile is loaded. From later in that same man page, we have: >> -i interactive Force the shell to behave interactively. >> >> -l Make dash act as if it had been invoked as a >> login shell. This indicates that '-i' produces an interactive shell, and '-l' produces a login shell. As far as I can tell, this documentation seems to match the behavior you describe as what you see. What is it about the man page which you are reading as suggesting that '-i' will result in $HOME/.profile being read? -- The Wanderer The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable man. -- George Bernard Shaw
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