Simple bash startup question...

Earnie Boyd earnie_boyd@yahoo.com
Mon Aug 14 12:38:00 GMT 2000


--- Andy Philpotts <andy.philpotts@calendarcentral.com> wrote:
> This may not be specific to cywin, but can anyone explain why, if I
> have an echo in my .bashrc and my .profile files, when I start a bash
> shell I get:
> 
> Welcome to .profile(1)
> Welcome to .bashrc(1)
> Welcome to .bashrc(1)
> Welcome to .profile(1)
> Welcome to .bashrc(1)
> 
> I would have expected to only see one invocation of each.
> 

Well I only get one occurance.  Check for other files such as /etc/bash_profile
and ~/.bash_profile that might be sourcing files.

Cheers,

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