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RE: /etc/profile in BASH
- To: "Masterson, Dave" <dmasters at rational dot com>
- Subject: RE: /etc/profile in BASH
- From: Earnie Boyd <earnie_boyd at yahoo dot com>
- Date: Fri, 29 Sep 2000 12:30:11 -0700 (PDT)
- Cc: "'cygwin at sources dot redhat dot com'" <cygwin at sources dot redhat dot com>
--- "Masterson, Dave" <dmasters@rational.com> wrote:
> I gotta learn to read more carefully... :-\
>
> One more time -- having these two lines in /etc/profile means that
> ~/.profile will be (potentially) sourced twice
IMO, the test for ~/.profile should be removed.
> (~/.bashrc might be as well depending on how the user handles it in >
~/.profile).
IMO, setup should be modified to put the test for ~/.bashrc in ~/.bash_profile.
> This could have
> unintended consequences where people *add-to* instead of *set* their
> environment variables -- particularly PATH. This could double the length of
> the PATH variable and slow down access to commands (particularly if one or
> more items on the PATH is a network share).
>
I agree. Caution has to be taken. 'Course, caution always has to be taken.
> Also, in order to be compatible with other UNIX system shells (Kshell), a
> user may have setup ~/.profile particularly for KShell and ~/.bash_profile
> particularly for BASH. Since BASH will not read ~/.profile if it finds
> ~/.bash_profile (or ~/.bash_login),
I just tested this. Bash reads both ~/.profile and ~/.bash_profile or
~/.bash_login. If both ~/.bash_profile and ~/.bash_login are present then only
~/.bash_profile is executed.
Cheers,
=====
Earnie Boyd
mailto:earnie_boyd@yahoo.com
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