Fwd: Re: Incorrect commandline history with bash

[Jeremy Chadwick]

On Sun, Sep 21, 2008 at 06:45:22PM -0400, Garance A Drosihn wrote:
> At 2:52 PM -0700 9/21/08, Jeremy Chadwick wrote:
>>
>> Individual did not CC the mailing list on his response.
>>
>> ----- Forwarded message from manish jain <unxfbsdi at gmail.com> -----
>>  >
>>  > Thanks Jeremy. Sourcing .bash_profile from .bashrc solved the
>>  > problem. For some reason, sourcing .bashrc from .bash_profile
>>  > worked equally well with the version of Linux I was previously
>>  > using.
>>  >
>>>  Regards
>>>  Manish Jain
>> -----    end message from manish jain <unxfbsdi at gmail.com> -----
>
> I do not understand how that makes any difference.  He had all his
> commands in .bashrc, and sourced it from .bash_profile.  If he
> moves all his commands to .bash_profile, and then sources that
> from his .bashrc, then isn't the result exactly the same?  Either
> way, all commands should be executed no matter how bash starts up.

The INVOCATION section of the bash man page goes over the subtle
differences.

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