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I work on an AIX system where I have no administrator privileges. It has several shells installed, default being tcsh. I am not allowed to change the login shell. Usualy I start my session from exec bash. The problem is that I do not inherit the $PATH I had in tsch. The first strange thing is that some of the entries in my $PATH are duplicated, when I do exec bash. Another strange thing is that when I do exec bash --norc and then source .bashrc everything is fine -- I get the path from tcsh and some additions from my .bashrc.

I have tried commenting out my .bashrc enirely, but it gave no result -- I still do not get the $PATH from tcsh. It seems that the system wide /etc/profile is manipulating my $PATH. I tried running exec bash --noprofile, but I still see the changes, that are introduced by /etc/profile script (which I have no control over).

So in the end perhaps someone spotted a flaw in my investigation and can tell me how to invoke bash with inhereted $PATH or can suggest a way to do it without reading the global config scripts?

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Did you try --norc as well to avoid system and local bashrc files? They could overwrite the path too. – Paul Dec 8 '11 at 0:42
I did try as I have described in my question: "Another strange thing is that when I do exec bash --norc and then source .bashrc everything is fine -- I get the path from tcsh and some additions from my .bashrc" – mezhaka Dec 8 '11 at 9:35
Reposted on Unix & Linux (and has answers there) – Gilles Dec 8 '11 at 20:57
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closed as too localized by Gilles, studiohack♦ Dec 8 '11 at 21:01

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