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Old 06-28-2008
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which file is sourced by bash on login (Mac OS X 10.5.3)?

Hi:

So my current Python (2.52) rig is not working as intended. "echo $PATH" in bash gives me 'X'" that's not what i want, so i need to change my path. To do that, there appeared to be four choices (all in my ~/ directory--note: I'm root, it's my Mac, but i'm in a user account):
.profile
.bashrc
.bash_profile
.bash_login

I inserted (unique) dummy paths in each of these, sourced them, keyed in "echo $PATH" again--nothing changed. Apparently none of these files are sourced by bash on login. I looked for a similar file in root (/env) but found nothing.
Finally, i'm aware that OS X uses the .plist to set environment variables--fine, but mine is empty (as i thought it would be) so that's not the culprit.
This is a painfully basic question that i was pretty sure i knew, but didn't. Any ideas?

Thanks,

--alex
 

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