Invoking Bash and Start-Up Files for Your Open Source Software Needs

Posted by Scott_Ruecker on Jun 16, 2010 6:24 AM EDT
ServerWatch; By Juliet Kemp
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If you've ever tried to change system-wide bash settings, you know there are three major ways of invoking bash, all of which behave differently when reading in settings files. 1. Interactive login shell (e.g., when logging in from the console or via ssh) 2. Interactive non-login shell (e.g., when you run bash at a terminal prompt) 3. Non-interactive shell (e.g., to run a shell script).

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