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Re: bug in documentation?


From: Chet Ramey
Subject: Re: bug in documentation?
Date: Sun, 22 Mar 2015 22:08:51 -0400
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On 3/22/15 7:50 PM, Christoph Anton Mitterer wrote:
> Hey.
> 
> The bash manpage says:
>> When a login shell exits, bash reads and executes commands from the
>> file ~/.bash_logout, if it exists.
> 
> However, it seems that this happens only for interactive login
> shells,... at least I couldn't get it executed for non-interactive login
> shells with the --login option.
> 
> Could you please clarify that?

It does when you call the exit builtin.  EOF to an interactive shell
executes the exit builtin, but you have to explicitly call it when in
a non-interactive shell.

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