Re: Which files do what: .bashrc and friends

[John Hasler <jhasler@debian.org>]

>From the INVOCATION section of the Bash man page:

       When bash is invoked as an interactive login shell, or as a
       non-interactive shell with the --login option, it first reads and
       executes commands from the file /etc/profile, if that file exists.
       After reading that file, it looks for ~/.bash_profile,
       ~/.bash_login, and ~/.profile, in that order, and reads and executes
       commands from the first one that exists and is readable.  The
       --noprofile option may be used when the shell is started to inhibit
       this behavior.

       When a login shell exits, bash reads and executes commands from the
       file ~/.bash_logout, if it exists.

       When an interactive shell that is not a login shell is started, bash
       reads and executes commands from /etc/bash.bashrc and ~/.bashrc, if
       these files exist.  This may be inhibited by using the --norc
       option.  The --rcfile file option will force bash to read and
       execute commands from file instead of /etc/bash.bashrc and
       ~/.bashrc.


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John Hasler