On Thu, Apr 15, 2004 at 04:04:37PM +0100, Timothy Murphy wrote:
> Isn't .bashrc normally read several times?
> I've never been clear what should go in .bashrc
> and what in .bash_profile.
> I've always assumed the latter was read only once,
> but I could easily be wrong.
It might be worth taking a look at the INVOCATION section of the bash
man page.
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Pete
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