Re: Re: I'm really confused by bash, .bashrc, .bash_profile, .profile, etc, etc, etc

["L.V.Gandhi" <lvgandhi@gmail.com>]

On 2/2/06, Alvin Oga <aoga@mail.linux-consulting.com> wrote:

>
>         - if you're confused .. do NOT change files in anything other
>         than your own home directory  "/home/you"
>
> once you get brave ... decide if you want to enforce others to
> use bash or csh or tsch or zsh or hudred-other-sh
>
>         - each will have a different priority of files it will
>         read or skip reading because some other files existed
>         and it will over-ride the defaults, while in other cases,
>         the defaults is still read, and user-defined changes
>         overrides the system defaults
>
> the search order is dfferent for user login vs scripts run by
> root or anybody/anything else ( like cron vs your scripts calling
> other scripts )
>
> which shell you use is defined in /etc/passed for that user
>
> to add more whackyness, different distro put their defaults
> in different directories and different filenames which will
> add confusion
>
> for simplicity... let's say you use /bin/bash on debian,
> which implies your the search order is:
>
> anything defined in one file can be redefined in the
> subsquent files
>
>         - user defined changes override system defined variables
>
>    system files
>         /etc/profile            = read first for user login
>
>         /etc/bash.bashrc        = interactive shell only
>
>
>    user can do what you want in these files ..
>
>         # after /etc/profile, search in order for the first executable:
>         ~/.bash_profile
>         ~/.bash_login
>         ~/.profile              - not read if the files exists before it
>
>         ~/.bashrc               interactive shell read it if it exists
>
>         ~/.morebashfiles ??
>
>    more user stuff
>         ~/.alias                always put aliases outside of bash files
>                                 for portability
>
>         ~/.login
>         ~/.logout
>
> http://developer.novell.com/wiki/index.php/Bash_-_What_happens_when_you_invoke_bash
>
> - the above ignores other "different" distros and other shells

I am running sid with kde3.5. I have some aliases in /etc/bash.bashrc.
In konsole as user if I type alias I get all aliases. But in root
konsole, I don't get aliaes. Why?


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L.V.Gandhi
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linux user No.205042