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Re: Which files do what: .bashrc and friends



On Wednesday 19 November 2008, tyler <tyler.smith@mail.mcgill.ca> wrote 
about 'Re: Which files do what: .bashrc and friends':
>I believe .profile and .bash_profile are synonyms, so you'd only use one
>or the other.

.profile is only used by bash when it cannot find .bash_profile.  .profile 
is also used by the traditional Bourne shell and Korn shell and is the 
standard location of such commands.
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