Re: Which files do what: .bashrc and friends

[Mike McCarty <Mike.McCarty@sbcglobal.net>]

Dotan Cohen wrote:
> On a Debian-based system running KDE 3.5.10 I see several files that
> are used when logging in / starting a Konsole:
>
> .profile

Run once upon login.

> .bash_history

List of previous commands for recall/edit/re execution

> .bash_logout

Run once upon logout

> .bash_profile

I believe equivalent to .profile

> .bashrc

Run once for each interactive shell, after .profile

The main difference between .profile and .bashrc is that
.profile only gets run when you start a "login shell",
but .bashrc gets run for all shells.

So, for example, if you use

$ su -

you'll run root's .profile and .bashrc, but

$ su

only runs root's .bashrc

Mike
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