Reality check on bash behavior.

[Paul Howarth]

Jeff Vian wrote:
> I know that on Linux a bash shell parses .profile _and_ ~/.bash_profile.
> I cannot speak for differences in OS X, although I would not expect any.
> 
> AIUI the .profile contains configurations that are used by all and the
> ~/.bash_profile makes user specific modifications.

Sure you don't mean /etc/profile when you write .profile ?

Paul.