[Bug 589496] Re: bash --rcfile does not behave as documented

[MestreLion]

Debian bug #516152 is from 2009, and #343673 from 2006 ... none of them
are fixed, so I don't think they care.

This is not an irrelevant package we are talking about, its a flaw in
invocation of something critical like bash. Is there any chance this
could be patched ASAP in Ubuntu and then the patch submitted to Debian
afterwards?

Also, this is not only a bug in documentation as #516152 and #343673
suggests: with current behaviour, it's impossible to "disable" the
execution of /etc/bash.bashrc and still give the user a choice of
executing a personal rcfile.

Samples:

$ cat /etc/bash.bashrc
echo etcbashrc
$ cat ~/customrc
echo customrc
$ cat ~/.bashrc
echo bashrc
$ bash
etcbashrc
bashrc
$ bash --rcfile ~/customrc
etcbashrc
customrc
$ bash --norc --rcfile ~/customrc
$

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Title:
  bash --rcfile does not behave as documented

Status in “bash” package in Ubuntu:
  Confirmed
Status in “bash” package in Debian:
  New

Bug description:
  Binary package hint: bash

  the bash manpage says this about --rcfile

  --rcfile file
  Execute commands from file instead of the system  wide  initial‐
  ization file /etc/bash.bashrc and the standard personal initial‐
  ization file ~/.bashrc if the shell is interactive (see  INVOCA‐
  TION below).

  under INVOCATION it says

  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.  This may be inhibited by using the --norc option.
  The --rcfile file option will force bash to read and  execute  commands
  from file instead of /etc/bash.bashrc and ~/.bashrc.

  but when i execute
  $ bash --rcfile somercfilewhichreallydoesexistandisreadableandall
  it will still read /etc/bash/bashrc (can be verified by adding --verbose)

  using lucid with bash 4.1-2ubuntu3

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