Re: CVS documentation wrong: .bashrc not read

[Derek Robert Price]

Hans Meine wrote:

> Sadly, bash does not seem to have ANY dotfile which is read for 
> non-interactive, non-login-shells.(!)
>  

Hrm.  Your comment seems to agree with my documentation for Bash:

> Invoked non-interactively
> .........................
>
>    When Bash is started non-interactively, to run a shell script, for
> example, it looks for the variable `BASH_ENV' in the environment,
> expands its value if it appears there, and uses the expanded value as
> the name of a file to read and execute.  Bash behaves as if the
> following command were executed:
>      `if [ -n "$BASH_ENV" ]; then . "$BASH_ENV"; fi'
>
> but the value of the `PATH' variable is not used to search for the file
> name.
>
>    As noted above, if a non-interactive shell is invoked with the
> `--login' option, Bash attempts to read and execute commands from the
> login shell startup files.


but setting:

   JUNKVAR=testval

in my ~/.bashrc and executing:

   ssh localhost 'echo $JUNKVAR'

outputs:

   testval

Like I would expect.  It sounds like CVS's documentation is correct and 
Bash's is wrong.  I've cc'd the bug-bash list.

If you really aren't having your .bashrc sourced, it could be because 
you are invoking Bash as `sh':

> `--norc'
>      Don't read the `~/.bashrc' initialization file in an interactive
>      shell.  This is on by default if the shell is invoked as `sh'.


Derek

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