[ale] how to get bash to run .bash_profile?

[da Black Baron]

Ooops.  Mybad.  I've just never seen the file in that format before. 
Sorry.  :-)

On Sun, 2003-02-02 at 23:30, John Wells wrote:
> Nope.  Shouldn't.
> 
> Here's an excerpt from `man bash`:
> 
> When  bash is invoked as an interactive login shell, or as a
> non‐inter‐
>        active shell with the −−login option, it first reads
> and executes  com‐
>        mands  from  the file /etc/profile, if that file exists.  After
> reading
>        that file, it looks for ~/.bash_profile, ~/.bash_login, and
> ~/.profile,
>        in  that order, and reads and executes commands from the first one
> that
>        exists and is readable.  The −−noprofile option may be 
> used  when  the
>        shell is started to inhibit this behavior.
> 
> 
> John
> 
> da Black Baron said:
> > You want to write a .bashrc file and a .profile file.  Bash will ingore
> > something named .bash_profile... :-)
> >
> > On Fri, 2003-01-31 at 20:55, Christopher Bergeron wrote:
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> >> Hey guys, how do I get bash to run .bash_profile?  I'm looking at my
> >> startup, and I'm trying to figure out why when I set my inittab to
> >> load:  /bin/bash instead of a "getty".  When it spawn's by bash
> >> session,  it doesn't load my .bash_profile.  Is there a way I can load
> >> a bash  shell and have it subsequently execute my .bash_profile?
> >>
> >> Alternatively, is there a way to get a getty to log in automatically
> >> (on  slackware!).  For some reason, I can't get slackware to use the
> >> mingetty+autologin patch/binary.  I was able to get it to work on
> >> RhAT,  but not on Slack8.
> >>
> >> Preferably, I'd like to skip "getty" altogether...
> >>
> >>
> >> Thanks!
> >> - -CB
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the summer of 1945.  Because they lost most of their hair, they 
mostly married each other.  And here I am"

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