Re: Dash man page not correct?

[Perry Smith]

> On Sep 25, 2022, at 10:10, The Wanderer  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.
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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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Dash man page not correct?

[Perry Smith]

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.

Thank you,
Perry
[1] https://manpages.debian.org/bullseye/dash/dash.1.en.html 



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Dash man page not correct?

[Perry Smith]

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.

Thank you,
Perry
[1] https://manpages.debian.org/bullseye/dash/dash.1.en.html