From: Jan Nicolai Langfeldt (janl@ifi.uio.no)
Date: 07/27/92 

From: janl@ifi.uio.no (Jan Nicolai Langfeldt)
Subject: .login, .profile bash and stuff (some answers) (Was: Minor problems with Linux)
Date: 27 Jul 1992 17:29:18 GMT

This is actuall pieces of the bash man page:

Nicolai 

-- 
Nicolai Langfeldt, "Bugs made while you wait"             
Internet: janl@ifi.uio.no

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INVOCATION
     A login shell is one whose first character of argument  zero
     is a - , or one started with the -login flag.

     An interactive shell is one whose standard input and  output
     are   both   connected   to   terminals  (as  determined  by
     isatty(3)), or one started with the -i flag.  PS1 is set and
     $- includes i if bash is interactive, allowing a way to test
     this state from a shell script or a startup file.

     Login shells:
       On login:
             if /etc/profile exists, source it.

             if ~/.bash_profile exists, source it,
               else if ~/.bash_login exists, source it,
                 else if ~/.profile exists, source it.
       On logout:
             if ~/.bash_logout exists, source it.

     Non-login interactive shells:
       On startup:
             if ~/.bashrc exists, source it.

     Non-interactive shells:
       On startup:
             if the environment variable ENV is non-null, expand
          it and source the file it names.

FILES
     /bin/bash
          The bash executable
     /etc/profile
          The systemwide initialization file, executed for  login
          shells
     ~/.bash_profile
          The personal initialization file,  executed  for  login
          shells
     ~/.bashrc
          The individual per-interactive-shell startup file
     ~/.inputrc
          Individual Readline initialization file