Re: Which files do what: .bashrc and friends

[Emanoil Kotsev <deloptes@yahoo.com>]

Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote:

> 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.

Yes, this is what I also prefer. If using .bash_profile i.e. when specific
things related to bash only are setup, I take care to check if .profile is
sourced and if not source it out.

For konsole I setup alias with konsole -ls

regards