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# 8  
Old 08-18-2008
Can you give an example? Thanks.
# 9  
Old 08-18-2008
Read the bash manual page.
# 10  
Old 08-19-2008
Excerpt from the man page of bash:

Quote:
If Bash is invoked as sh, it tries to mimic the behavior
of sh as closely as possible. For a login shell, it
attempts to source only /etc/profile and ~/.profile, in
that order. The -noprofile option may still be used to
disable this behavior. A shell invoked as sh does not
attempt to source any other startup files.
Regards
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