I discovered recently that I missed a case in my writeup of whenbash sources your .bashrc , or technically I didn'tmiss a case because bash has an inexplicable omission: bash doesn'tsource your .bashrc when you ssh in with a pty. That is, if youdo:

ssh -t host command ...

Your .bashrc is not sourced. Neither does bash source your .login (well, of course).

This was an unpleasant surprise when I found it out recently, since

It turns out that I can get something that more or less does what Iwanted sshmenu to do (per yesterday's entry ).In email Dan Astoorian pointed me at the Gnome 'Command Line' appletand that it has macro capabilities; you can define a pattern and acommand to run (using bits of the pattern) when the pattern matches the'command' that you type. Thus, you can hijack it into a 'ssh sessionlauncher' with suitable patterns.

The current patterns and commands that