Re: Newbie comments & queries
On Wed, Nov 14, 2001 at 06:00:00PM +1100, Matthew Dalton wrote:
> Ian Balchin wrote:
> >
> > Karsten & Matthew,
> >
> > Thanks, you have cleared up the mysteries for me. Well,
> > almost.....
> >
> > .... soooo, if Debian is looking for a bashrc or profile file, it
> > won't mind if it has a dot in front or not, right? :>
>
> Not exactly...
>
> If it's in your home directory, it's got a dot. If it's in /etc, it
> hasn't.
Also, the files:
/etc/bash.bashrc
/etc/profile
are run for every login, so you can put system-wide defaults
there, while the files:
$HOME/.bashrc
$HOME/.bash_profile
are run for individual users as they log in, and so user-specific
customisations should go there.
You can try putting
echo "running /etc/bash.bashrc"
echo "running .bashrc"
etc in your startup files, and see the lines print out when
you log in. The full list of init files that are read for
each login and new shell is given in bash(1) (search for
INVOCATION) as Matthew Dalton suggested.
$ man bash
To search for a string, type a slash followed by the string,
followed by <enter>. To search for the next occurence, type
an n. To get rid of the highlighting, type <esc>u (hit the
esc key, then hit the u key).
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