As given in the article, it's also the most annoying bash diagram ever...it needs an explanation of what the 7 different colors of arrows mean. All that was given is:
> It shows which scripts bash decides to run from the top, based on decisions made about the context bash is running in (which decides the colour to follow).
> So if you are in a local (non-remote), non-login, interactive shell (eg when you run bash itself from the command line), you are on the ‘green’ line [...]
With a bit of Googling I believe I found the origin of that diagram:
> Fortunately, I’ve read the man pages for you, and drawn a pretty diagram. To read it, pick your shell, whether it's a login shell, whether it's interactive, and follow the same colour through the diagram. When the arrows split out to multiple files, it means that the shell will try to read each one in turn (working left to right), and will use the first one it can read
The remote bash startup order is further complicated by the existence of a compile time flag SSH_SOURCE_BASHRC. This flag determines if a remote non-interactive shell will load the ~/.bashrc file.
This flag is turned off by default and stays off in some distributions (like Archlinux), but is turned on in others (Debian, Fedora, ...) to replicate very old rsh behaviour.
Id' imagine they dont include it because the descriptions are very intertwined and complicated. I don't even know what they all mean but I usually just google this mess.
