Shell startup scripts — flowblok’s blogUpdate (2020-03-29) When I originally wrote this blog post, my intent was to describe how things worked on a typical system at the time. Unfortunately, the operation of bash startup scripts is dependent on patches added by OS distributions, compile-time options and if bash thinks it was invoked by sshd or rshd. I have no desire to add complexity to this post, so instead please read this as a rough
