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Bash Startup Scripts: .bashrc and .bash_profile

Jun 22, 2009  By Shawn Powers
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Good tech tip

octopusgrabbus's picture
Submitted by octopusgrabbus (not verified) on Tue, 06/30/2009 - 09:26.

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.

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Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on Wed, 06/24/2009 - 09:13.

"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

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Submitted by Gen2ly (not verified) on Tue, 06/23/2009 - 17:24.

unnecessary to make executable

Question

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Submitted by Adrian Ponoran (not verified) on Tue, 06/23/2009 - 10:08.

Why did you have to make .bash_profile executable. It is always sourced in and not executed directly ?

Nice explanation

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Submitted by mattcen on Tue, 06/23/2009 - 07:27.

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!

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Regards,
Matthew Cengia

Thanks

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Submitted by Niosus (not verified) on Tue, 06/23/2009 - 06:36.

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 ;)