On Fri, 2005-11-11 at 13:26 +1000, David Lockwood wrote:
> But /bin/sh is just a symlink to /bin/bash, the same binary runs. I
> didn't think of this straight away because I knew bash was the only
> shell I had installed, and I thought from my reading that "bash +
> login = ~/.bash_profile gets read"

Same binary, but a program can tell what name it's invoked by and alter
it's behaviour accordingly. In the case of bash, invoking it as 'sh'
causes it to run in a compatibility mode for classic Bourne shell, so it
won't be running bash-specific login scripts.

Simon.

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