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To: Khairil Yusof <kaeru@pd.jaring.my>
Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject: Re: Confused about bash profiles and environment settings.
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From: Lowell Gilbert <freebsd-questions-local@be-well.no-ip.com>
Date: 18 Nov 2002 09:56:30 -0500
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Khairil Yusof <kaeru@pd.jaring.my> writes:

> According to the man, bash loads up for an interactive shell:
> 
> /etc/profile
> ~/.bash_profile
> ~/.bash_login
> ~/.profile
 
No, that's not what it says.  It says that it only loads *one* of the
last three, and that it tries them in that order.

The behaviour you've observed matches this description.

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