Reality check on bash behavior.

[John Summerfied]

Paul Howarth wrote:
> John Summerfied wrote:

>>>
>> Some distros do have ~/.profile (I think Debian does).
> 
> 
> Yes, but that's still a user-specific file, not one that applies to all 
> users.
> 
> Bash will read ~/.profile if it's a login shell and neither 
> ~/.bash_profile nor ~/.bash_login exist. See the INVOCATION section of 
> the bash manpage.

and if ~/.bash_profile sources ~/.profile (as I said), then it's 
distro-wide. My point.



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