Juvenile BASH question

[Bill Oliver]

On Mon, 21 Oct 2013, Mark Haney wrote:

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Yeah, you'd think so.  When stuff like that happens to me, it's often that the environments are different -- I sometimes have things in my .profile or .bash_profile file that are not in my .bashrc file, so subshells are a bit different than the original shell.  Thus, for instance, it is conceiveable that there's a PBPASSWORD variable set in your .profile that isn't set in .bashrc, or something like that.

billo