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Date:      18 Nov 2002 09:56:30 -0500
From:      Lowell Gilbert <freebsd-questions-local@be-well.no-ip.com>
To:        Khairil Yusof <kaeru@pd.jaring.my>
Cc:        questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Confused about bash profiles and environment settings.
Message-ID:  <4465uvc4f5.fsf@be-well.ilk.org>
In-Reply-To: <1037630612.73684.18.camel@daemon.home>
References:  <1037630612.73684.18.camel@daemon.home>

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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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