When I open terminal It issues /bin/bash; exit automatically

When I open up a terminal window it issues an extra command
/bin/bash; exit
If I open up window settings and look at processes I can see that I have two bash shells running. This extra bash shell overwrites my aliases I have
set up in my .profile file.
I have looked and looked for an answer and I cannot seem to find one. I did not have this issue a few days ago. (I admit I have been doing some odd tweaks recently but I do not know how this happened).
If I log in as another user on my system I do not have this extra bash shell. So whatever it is it seems to be linked to my account.
Any help would be greatly appreciated.

That was it. Just to detail what I did
I went into
patman/Library/Preferences/
and removed com.apple.Terminal.plist
I did look at the original and found a field
ExecutionString that had the command in it!
I decided not to mess with it and just deleted the entire
file. Terminal recreated it when I started terminal again.
Thanks a bunch this was driving me nuts for the
past day.

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