Bug 51541 - Help text in bashrc and bash_profile
Summary: Help text in bashrc and bash_profile
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Status: CLOSED RAWHIDE
Alias: None
Product: Red Hat Linux
Classification: Retired
Component: bash
Version: 7.1
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
medium
medium
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Bernhard Rosenkraenzer
QA Contact: Aaron Brown
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Blocks:
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2001-08-12 09:18 UTC by Dennis Björklund
Modified: 2007-04-18 16:35 UTC (History)
1 user (show)

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Doc Type: Enhancement
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Last Closed: 2001-08-13 04:38:37 UTC
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Description Dennis Björklund 2001-08-12 09:18:06 UTC 
The comments in files like ~/.bashrc and ~/bash_profile could need some
extra love. A good ting would be to add a line saying when the file
will be used. As it is now, ~/,bashrc is read in every time you start bash
and ~/.bash_profile is read in when you login (that's my understanding of
it at least).

A nice help for the user (me) is to add this information as a comment to
these files.
Comment 1 Bernhard Rosenkraenzer 2001-08-12 10:55:09 UTC 
bashrc lives in setup these days, reassigning
Comment 2 Bill Nottingham 2001-08-13 04:38:32 UTC 
Not the /etc/skel ones that go in ~. :)
Comment 3 Bernhard Rosenkraenzer 2002-08-30 01:00:59 UTC 
Added in 2.05b-6
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