> Neil Bothwick wrote:
> > On Wed, 19 Sep 2007 17:03:16 +0200, David Harel wrote:
> >> I was surprised to find that in man bash the reference to initialization
> >> files is wrong. The bash manual says it reads initialization files from
> >> /etc/profile:
> >> FILES
> >>        /bin/bash
> >>               The bash executable
> >>        /etc/profile
> >>               The systemwide initialization file, executed for login
> >> shells
> >>
> >>
> >> Where real life uses /etc/bash/bashrc
> >> This part is taken from strace dump: strace bash -i
> >> open("/etc/bash/bashrc", O_RDONLY|O_LARGEFILE) = 3

Hmmm. bash -i is not a login shell. An interactive shell doesn't 
read /etc/profile if it's not a login shell.

From man bash:

``When  bash  is  invoked as an interactive login shell, or as a 
non-interactive shell with the --login option, it first reads and executes 
commands 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.

<snip>

When  an  interactive shell that is not a login shell is started, bash reads 
and executes commands from ~/.bashrc, if that file exists.  This may be 
inhibited by using the --norc option.  The --rcfile file option will force 
bash to read and execute commands from file instead of ~/.bashrc.''

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