Re: bash: /etc/profile, /etc/bashrc,

[Paul@Mills-USA.com (W. Paul Mills)]

Pere Camps <pere@casal.upc.es> writes:

> Hi!
> 
> 	In /etc/bashrc, do I put anything else than the 'aliases'?
> 
> 	I've put all the rest in /etc/profile, but if I do a non-login
> interactive shell, all the 'exports' don't load so all the rest.
> 
> 	What exactly goes where?
> 

Depends on what you want to do. But, /etc/bashrc does not seem
to be a valid filename serched for by bash. From the manual:


       When bash is invoked as an  interactive  login  shell,  it
       first  reads and executes commands from the file /etc/pro?­
       file, 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 a login shell exits, bash reads and executes commands
       from the file ~/.bash_logout, if it exists.

       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.

       When  bash  is  started  non-interactively, to run a shell
       script, for example, it looks for the variable BASH_ENV in
       the  environment,  expands  its value if it appears there,
       and uses the expanded value as the name of a file to  read
       and  execute.   Bash  behaves  as if the following command
       were executed:
              if [ -n "$BASH_ENV" ]; then . "$BASH_ENV"; fi
       but the value of the PATH variable is not used  to  search
       for the file name.

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