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- From: chip@tct.COM (Chip Salzenberg)
- Newsgroups: gnu.bash.bug
- Subject: Re: always execute .bashrc
- Date: 22 Jan 1993 21:26:52 -0500
- Organization: TC Telemanagement, Clearwater, FL
- Lines: 18
- Sender: daemon@cis.ohio-state.edu
- Approved: bug-bash@prep.ai.mit.edu
- Distribution: gnu
- Message-ID: <m0nFPhi-0000XBC@animal.tct.com>
- References: <9301141412.AA15219.SM@odin.INS.CWRU.Edu>
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- In an earlier message to bug-bash, I wrote:
- > Chet understates the problem. Bash runs .bashrc when you do this:
- > bash -c 'wc' < random.file
- > Everyone (except Chet and Brian, it seems) can see that's a bug.
-
- My statement implies that Chet approves of the bug. However, he does
- NOT approve. Rather, he has agreed with me on several occasions that
- the behavior in question should be changed.
-
- It had been so long since our previous discussion that I'd forgotten.
-
- "Sorry about that, Chief."
- --
- Chip Salzenberg at Teltronics/TCT <chip@tct.com>, <73717.366@compuserve.com>
- "you make me want to break the laws of time and space / you make me
- want to eat pork / you make me want to staple bagels to my face /
- and remove them with a pitchfork" -- Weird Al Yankovic, "You Make Me"
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