Re: --rcfile and non existing files

[Chet Ramey]

On 6/24/24 4:36 PM, Gioele Barabucci wrote:
> Hi,
>
> the manpage states:
>
> > When an interactive shell that is not a login shell is started, bash
> > reads and executes commands from /etc/bash.bashrc and ~/.bashrc, if
> > these files exist.  […] The --rcfile file option will force bash to
> > read and execute commands from file instead of /etc/bash.bashrc and
> > ~/.bashrc.
> This wording suggests (or may suggest) that `bash --rcfile foo` will 
> execute file `foo`, and complain if it contains an error or if it does not 
> exists.

I don't think the wording suggests that. This report reads something into
the use of the word "force" that is not there.

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