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Re: Which files do what: .bashrc and friends



Mike McCarty <Mike.McCarty@sbcglobal.net>:
>  Dotan Cohen wrote:
> > 
> > .bashrc
> 
>  Run once for each interactive shell, after .profile

... if called by .profile or .bash_profile.

A long time ago, this was automatic (a la ksh and ENV; if ENV =
~/.kshrc, then ~/.kshrc was run on login shell invocation).  Every
bash install I've seen in years has ". .bashrc" in the stock install
.bash_profile, meaning it's no longer automatic.


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