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[Ryo Furue]

Hi Kevin,

| > Fedora 10 "/etc/skel/.bash_profile" (the default):
| > 
| > ------8<------8<------8<------8<------8<------8<------8<------8<------
| > 
| > # .bash_profile
| > 
| > # Get the aliases and functions
| > if [ -f ~/.bashrc ]; then
| > 	. ~/.bashrc
| > fi
| > 
[. . .]
| 
| Unfortunately this seems to be very common across distributions.

I object to "unfortunately"! :-)  Consider this:

  1) Most users want .bashrc to be read for every bash instance.
  2) .bash_profiles is intended to be read only by login shells.

Now the problem is that .bashrc isn't read by a login shell!
(See the manpage.)  Therefore, it's "natural" to have

  if [ -f ~/.bashrc ]; then   # --- (A)
     . ~/.bashrc
  fi

in your .bash_profile because a login shell is a shell, too
(See item 1 above).

Without this provision, you would have to copy the contents
of .bashrc to .bash_profile to get the same settings
in a login shell.

For this reason, I've had (A) since when I switched from tcsh
to bash more than ten years ago(*).

Regards,
Ryo
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(*) If I remember correctly, csh and tcsh read BOTH
.cshrc and .login when being a login shell.  I think
this is more natural than what bash does, for the reason
stated above.
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