/etc/profile in BASH

[Earnie Boyd]

--- "Masterson, Dave" <dmasters@rational.com> wrote:
> Question:
> 
> In Cygwin 1.1, why are the last two lines of the installed /etc/profile the
> following?
> 
> 	test -f ./.profile && . ./.profile
> 	test -f ./.bashrc && . ./.bashrc
> 
> As described in the BASH MAN page, it would seem that BASH does this already
> after reading /etc/profile.  Is this required because of the implementation
> of Cygwin on MS-Windows?
> 

IMO, the test -f ./.profile && . ./.profile isn't needed, it will get executed
by bash anyway.  The test -f ./.bashrc && . ./.bashrc is needed because when
bash is in login state it doesn't process ~/.bashrc.  In login state both
/etc/profile and ~/.profile are executed.  In non-login state /etc/profile and
~/.profile aren't executed but ~/.bashrc is but IIRC only for the interactive
state.

Cheers,

=====
Earnie Boyd
mailto:earnie_boyd@yahoo.com

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