.bashrc .profile .bash_profile

[Brandon Allbery]

On Oct 2, 2009, at 14:49 , Harald Hanche-Olsen wrote:
> + Brandon Allbery <allbery at kf8nh.com>:
> If you run vi and type ":!ls", vi will spawn a noninteractive shell to
>> run "ls".  Noninteractive shells are also used by "make", "port", and
>> numerous other commands.
>
> Note, however, that these invoke /bin/sh and not bash. Even if /bin/sh


Actually, we've both just lied.  vi is a special case; for "!" and  
":!" it specifically runs $SHELL, and does so "pseudo-interactively"  
so it will pick up aliases and local variable declarations  
from .cshrc / .bashrc / .zshenv etc. as appropriate so you can use  
them in commands.

-- 
brandon s. allbery [solaris,freebsd,perl,pugs,haskell] allbery at kf8nh.com
system administrator [openafs,heimdal,too many hats] allbery at ece.cmu.edu
electrical and computer engineering, carnegie mellon university    KF8NH



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