[wplug] leftover operation?

[Jonathan Billings]

On Thu, Jan 21, 2010 at 04:16:44PM -0500, Weber, Lawrence A wrote:
>
> When I open a terminal window, I get a "sed: no input file" message.  I
> had recently worked on a script that called sed but that script should
> be terminated.  Also I noted that there is(was) a file with my script
> name with # signs before and after it.  I deleted that file but the
> message is still present.  It doesn't seem to hurt anything but I need
> to know why it is there.

If your shell is bash, you can run:

echo exit | script -c '/bin/bash -v' bash_output.log


This should show you all that bash is doing when you start a new
shell.  Most likely you are calling sed in some script that is invoked
in your bashrc.  That kind of output might actually cause harm if
something is expecting bash to produce output when it is invoked and
it gets extra output.




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