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List:       kde-devel
Subject:    Re: [Fwd: [Bug 53345] .bash_profile  script is not sourced]
From:       Thiago Macieira <thiago.macieira () kdemail ! net>
Date:       2004-02-27 0:16:08
Message-ID: 200402262116.17682.thiago.macieira () kdemail ! net
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Roger Larsson wrote:
>what about my idea to add -l to #! /bin/sh? (see bug report)
>Wouldn't that work in most cases?

That's not portable. It would only work when sh is bash.

The only way of forcing a login shell is to make argv[0] start with a 
dash. And, unfortunately, I know of no portable way of doing that in a 
shell script.
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