Bash Startup Scripts: .bashrc and .bash_profile
June 22nd, 2009 by Shawn Powers in
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Good tech tip
On June 30th, 2009 octopusgrabbus (not verified) says:
Thanks for the helpful video. .bash_profile and .bashrc also get confusing when moving between distros, like Red Hat and Ubuntu, so it was nice to have a straightforward explanation.
oh
On June 24th, 2009 Anonymous (not verified) says:
"sorry if this is confusing, but this is how we do it"
probably should be a little more informative than that for noobs. But for the rest of us, good to know when each .bash... is called. thx
yep #1
On June 23rd, 2009 Gen2ly (not verified) says:
unnecessary to make executable
Question
On June 23rd, 2009 Adrian Ponoran (not verified) says:
Why did you have to make .bash_profile executable. It is always sourced in and not executed directly ?
Nice explanation
On June 23rd, 2009 mattcen says:
That's interesting. I was under the misapprehension that one was for interactive, and one for non-interactive logins (so one is run by scripts for example, while the other is run by an interactive shell).
It raised a new question. What determines whether a shell is a "login" shell or not? Is the login shell just the first one you open when you log into a freshly booted system?
It's good to clear that up though :D.
Thanks!
Thanks
On June 23rd, 2009 Niosus (not verified) says:
Very handy! i have been looking for something like this.
Just one note: can you make the sound in your videos a little bit loader, i have to crank up my speakers to hear you ;)
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