'-bash: xxxxxx: command not found'

[Tim Waugh]

Configuration Information [Automatically generated, do not change]:
Machine: i386
OS: linux-gnu
Compiler: i386-redhat-linux-gcc
Compilation CFLAGS:  -DPROGRAM='bash' -DCONF_HOSTTYPE='i386' 
-DCONF_OSTYPE='linux-gnu' -DCONF_MACHTYPE='i386-redhat-linux-gnu' 
-DCONF_VENDOR='redhat' -DSHELL -DHAVE_CONFIG_H  -I.  -I. -I./include -I./lib 
-D_GNU_SOURCE  -O2 -march=i386 -mcpu=i686
uname output: Linux meme.surrey.redhat.com 2.4.20-2.15 #1 Mon Jan 13 21:47:20 
EST 2003 i686 i686 i386 GNU/Linux
Machine Type: i386-redhat-linux-gnu

Bash Version: 2.05b
Patch Level: 0
Release Status: release

Description:
        In a login shell, bash refers to itself as '-bash' in error
        messages.  It didn't in previous versions.

Repeat-By:
        Get a login shell (su -, or just log in at the console), and
        attempt to run a command that doesn't exist.

Is it intentional?

Tim.
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