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/etc/bash.bashrc derivation and "misuses"


From: Linda Walsh
Subject: /etc/bash.bashrc derivation and "misuses"
Date: Sat, 24 Feb 2007 15:55:41 -0800
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Chet Ramey wrote:
not a standard part of the build, so it's not in the man page.
Putting a mention of it in would cause more problems that it would solve.
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Maybe, but a mention of it might not.  Some verbiage that some implementations
of bash "may implement a system-wide 'bashrc' equivalent, that by default,
is called '/etc/bash.bashrc'.  More information is available in the source".

???

Yeah...it might confuse some people.

But certainly no more than having /etc/bash.bashrc call /etc/profile, by default
and having /etc/profile call "$HOME/.bashrc" by default (which ends up with
some "distributions" (SuSE10.2) calling .bashrc twice with each bash
invocation (ug!) (not that this is "bash's" fault :-)).






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