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In article <2A7691FE.7354@tct.com> chip@tct.COM (Chip Salzenberg) writes:
>According to chet@po.cwru.edu:
>>Bash attempts to source the .bashrc for non-interactive shells running
>>rsh and rcp so things like $PATH get set.
>
>... which is, in my opinion, a BIG mistake.

   I don't think it's a mistake at all.  Not only do other shells do this
(so it's expected behavior), but it's really useful for getting things like
your PATH. 

   It's conventional wisdom that you put interactive commands in an `if'
that checks if PS1 is set.  I keep it them in a separate file, personally.

   Here's a trivial way of doing it:

        PATH=...
        # Other noninteractive commands here

        if [ -z "${PS1}" ]; then
           return 0
        fi

        # interactive commands here.        


Works in relatively recent versions of bash which stop sourcing files after
they see a top-level return.