Re: Bash & .bashrc

[Anthony Campbell <a.campbell@doctors.org.uk>]

On 07 Mar 2001, ktb wrote:
> On Wed, Mar 07, 2001 at 04:40:25PM -0500, Colin Cashman wrote:
> > I have .bashrc set up to support color ls, but .bashrc isn't called when I log in.
> > 
> > If I subsequently start a new shell, however, or 'source .bashrc' then the file is read and processed.
> > 
> > What's the best way to handle this so it's done automagically upon logging in? Just throw "source .bashrc" onto the end of the
> > .bash_profile file?
> > 
> 
> I put the following in my .bash_profile
> 
> if [ -f ~/.bashrc ]; then
>     source ~/.bashrc
> fi
> 
> hth,
> kent


Is there any reason to use ~/.bash_profile, etc, rather than
/etc/profile, if you are the only user on the system?

Anthony

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