Author: Daniel Tiefnig Date: To: exim-dev Subject: Re: [exim-dev] /bin/rm
Philip Hazel wrote: > Other people's views?
Well, from bash(1):
| When bash is invoked as an interactive login shell, or as a
| non-interactive shell with the --login option, it first reads and
| executes commands 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. [...] | When an interactive shell that is not a login shell is started, bash
| reads and executes commands from /etc/bash.bashrc and ~/.bashrc, if
| these files exist.
This of course suggests to put aliases into ~/.bashrc. (or
/etc/bash.bashrc) But I don't think that helps much. There may be
millions of people out there, that have put their aliases into
/etc/profile or wherever, and we have to take care of them too.
But that's easy, you can just run "unalias -a" to turn of all aliases.
