Re: BASH_ENV does not behave as expected.

[Paul Jarc]

Eric Darrot <tech@keynux.com> wrote:
>          Well, easy description, the following doesn't work:
>
>          echo "echo hello-world" > /tmp/bashenv.sh
>          chmod 755 /tmp/bashenv
>          BASH_ENV=/tmp/bashenv.sh bash

That behavior is correct.

>          But it should, as stated in the man page:

You missed the beginning of that paragraph:
       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.
You're starting bash interactively, so $BASH_ENV is not used.


paul