Hei hei,

Am 21.03.2012 07:17, schrieb Bernhard Walle:
>> I'm using zsh, not bash, but still have ~/.bashrc … what does this code
>> try to do in the first place and how does this affect users of other shells?
> 
> It only avoids two error messages when running "ptxdist bash" when the
> files are not present. You can also use bash and have no ~/.bashrc
> although that might be seldom.

Okay, then let's rephrase this. From `ptxdist help` I got:

  bash                          enter a ptxdist environment bash shell
  bash <cmd> [args...]          execute <cmd> in ptxdist environment

What is this environment useful for or what advantages has `ptxdist
bash` over my own shell?

Greets
Alex

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