From: "ara.t.howard" <ara.t.howard@...>
Date: 2007-10-13T11:01:23+09:00
Subject: Re: [OT] Re: wtf? gem command vanished


On Oct 12, 2007, at 12:32 PM, John Joyce wrote:

>>
>> users coming from linux to bsd/osx are sometime surprised to find  
>> their .bashrc not sources in certain situations - this is due to  
>> the setup in /etc, not bash itself.  regardless it's a source of  
>> confusion for many people.
> not sources? huh?

'sources'.sub /s$/, 'd'

> I think it's linux that might be deviating on that actually, but it  
> shouldn't matter.
> in all of them, there is a load precedence precedence on the file  
> name and location. Some of the files officially have the same  
> precedence, but might get slightly higher by being loaded in the  
> order of the file name.

it's not quite just order - some are not loaded at all under certain  
situations.  the .bashrc, for example is *not* sourced on login on  
some systems.  linux does indeed do this differently so, if you're  
coming from that os you will have quite a suprised with a carefully  
crafted .bashrc.

cheers.

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