[wplug] Managing Environment Variables - Follow-up

Jonathan Billings billings at negate.org
Tue Dec 1 11:10:57 EST 2009


On Tue, Dec 01, 2009 at 07:06:46AM -0500, Weber, Lawrence A wrote:
>
> I thought that .bash_profile was read once at login and that .bashrc was
> read every time a shell was opened? 
> 

I should have been more clear -- your login shell (which only reads
the bash login/profile rc files) most likely starts subshells which
subsequently read your bashrc before starting your graphical session.  

-- 
Jonathan Billings <billings at negate.org>


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