> On Sep 25, 2022, at 10:10, The Wanderer <wande...@fastmail.fm> wrote: > > On 2022-09-25 at 11:00, Perry Smith wrote: > >> I have Debian bullseye installed in a container. My reading of the man >> page[1] >> is to use the -i flag to get dash to read $HOME/.profile. But that doesn’t >> seem >> to work for me. Instead, -l needs to be used. At least, that seems to be >> true for >> me using Docker. Does this seem to be correct? If so, I will open a bug >> report >> but thought I would check here since Docker might be the root cause somehow. > > I replied to your message on the same day it was sent. If you have not > seen it, I suspect you may well not be subscribed to the mailing list. > > If you want to be CCed on replies to messages you send to the mailing > list, please state that in the message itself. > > Alternately, please consider subscribing, so that you will receive > replies regardless. > > In the meantime, you can read replies already sent via the list > archives, which are available at: > > https://lists.debian.org/debian-user/ > > My specific reply can be seen at: > > https://lists.debian.org/debian-user/2022/09/msg00611.html
Thank you. I was not subscribed. I went to https://lists.debian.org/debian-user/ <https://lists.debian.org/debian-user/> and searched but didn’t notice that it was only page 1 of 2. I misunderstood / misread this phrase: … the shell is also considered a login shell … In particular the ‘also’. The only suggestion I can give is something like: When first starting, the shell inspects argument 0, and if it begins with a dash ‘-’, the shell is considered a login shell which is also interactive. The first time “login” is mentioned is after the “also” implying that inclusion in something else. A separate paragraph might make it clearer as well since the topic has shifted from an interactive shell to a login shell. Perry
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