[MacTUG] Bash no bash

Ian Turner iturner at uwaterloo.ca
Wed Aug 27 12:34:38 EDT 2008


Jason tried to 'splain this to me once, but I'm not sure I "got it"!

Here's what I think I know:
The first terminal session is like a local console; following ones are 
"terminal session".

You might also notice differences between Terminal and x11 likewise.

Dani Roloson wrote:
> User's default shell is /bin/bash.
> Start up a terminal window and it doesn't execute his .bashrc.
> Type bash in the terminal window and it does.
> So confused.
> 
> Dani
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