Re: /etc/bash.bashrc derivation and "misuses"

[Chet Ramey]

Linda Walsh wrote:
> 
> 
> Chet Ramey wrote:
>> not a standard part of the build, so it's not in the man page.
>> Putting a mention of it in would cause more problems that it would solve.
> ---
> Maybe, but a mention of it might not.  Some verbiage that some
> implementations
> of bash "may implement a system-wide 'bashrc' equivalent, that by default,
> is called '/etc/bash.bashrc'.  More information is available in the
> source".

That's not appropriate for a man page.  In my opinion, if a system vendor
chooses to enable that sort of functionality (and many do, for all sorts
of reasons), then they need to add something to the documentation noting
that.  It doesn't have to be complicated:

/etc/bash.bashrc        System-wide interactive shell initialization file

Chet

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