Shell $PATH problems

[Kaveh Bazargan]

OK. Here is a solution. I learnt the following from my discussions on the
Apple Unix discussions forum:

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When bash is invoked as an interactive login shell, or as a non-interactive
shell with the --login option, it first reads and executes commands from
the file /etc/profile, if that file exists. After reading that file, it
looks for ~/.bash_profile, ~/.bash_login, and ~/.profile, in that order,
and reads and executes commands from the first one that exists and is
readable. The --noprofile option may be used when theshell is started to
inhibit this behavior.
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So the difference between Terminal and the RR command is that the first is
an interactive login shell, the second is not. But by saying "bash --login"
I can get the RR command to mimick the interactive behaviour by reading
from ~/.bash_profile in my case.

Now when I execute this command:

put shell("bash --login; echo $PATH")

I still get the old pathname, i.e. "/usr/bin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/sbin:/Users/kaveh"

But when I say

put shell("bash --login;" &return& "echo $PATH")

I get the new path name, just as in Terminal.

Again this might be something basic. Any idea why the return is needed?
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