Re: Which files do what: .bashrc and friends

["Dotan Cohen" <dotancohen@gmail.com>]

2008/11/19 tyler <tyler.smith@mail.mcgill.ca>:
> "Dotan Cohen" <dotancohen@gmail.com> writes:
>
>> On a Debian-based system running KDE 3.5.10 I see several files that
>> are used when logging in / starting a Konsole:
>>
>> .profile
>> .bash_history
>> .bash_logout
>> .bash_profile
>> .bashrc
>>
>> Thanks in advance. If there are any good docs that explain this, I'd
>> love to see them. I have not been able to google anything recent that
>> is relevant to Debian.
>
> man bash answers most of your questions:
>
> FILES
>       /bin/bash
>              The bash executable
>       /etc/profile
>              The systemwide initialization file, executed for login shells
>       /etc/bash.bashrc
>              The systemwide per-interactive-shell startup file
>       /etc/bash.logout
>              The systemwide login shell cleanup file, executed when a login shell exits
>       ~/.bash_profile
>              The personal initialization file, executed for login shells
>       ~/.bashrc
>              The individual per-interactive-shell startup file
>       ~/.bash_logout
>              The individual login shell cleanup file, executed when a login shell exits
>       ~/.inputrc
>              Individual readline initialization file
>
> I believe .profile and .bash_profile are synonyms, so you'd only use one
> or the other. .bash_history holds your command line history, and is not
> used for runtime configuration. I'm not sure what shell scripts run from
> another application do. I would guess they stuff done in .bashrc would
> affect them, but not stuff in  *profile.
>
> Cheers,
>
> Tyler
>

Thanks, Tyler. I had read man bash so long ago that I forgot what was
there, and didn't think to review it. Just to confirm (as in CS so
many things are counter intuitive):
1) Is a login shell run when the user logs onto KDE (even though he
does not see a konsole window)?
2) Is an interactive shell the term used for opening a konsole window?

Thanks!

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Dotan Cohen

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