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 the shell is
started to inhibit this behavior.
When an interactive shell that is not a login shell is started,
bash reads and executes commands from ~/.bashrc, if that file
exists. This may be inhibited by using the --norc option. The
--rcfile file option will force bash to read and execute
commands from file instead of ~/.bashrc.
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100 lines is excessive. On mine (Mandriva), there are three uncommented, non-empty lines.