On Mon, Dec 16, 2002 at 04:39:54PM -0500, Bruce Park wrote: > My understanding with the original Bourne shell was that when it starts up, > it will execute .profile in the users home directory. How does this work in > bash? I have a .bash_profile but I know that it isn't executed since my > PATH variable isn't updated everytime I log on. I got tired of trying to figure it out or keep it straight, so I took the more featureful of .bashrc and .bash_profile, deleted the other and made it a simlink to the more featureful one. I haven't had any sort of adverse reactions yet, and I've been set this way for roughly a year. YMMV. -- .''`. Baloo <baloo@ursine.dyndns.org> : :' : proud Debian admin and user `. `'` `- Debian - when you have better things to do than to fix a system
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