Re: Strange .bashrc Problem
On Wed, 25 Apr 2018 16:02:12 -0400 Greg Wooledge said:
> On Wed, Apr 25, 2018 at 10:49:52PM +0300, Abdullah Ramazanoglu wrote:
>
> > It seems like when ~/.bash_profile did not exist, then ~/.bashrc is called
> > directly.
>
> That's not correct.
>
> As a LOGIN shell, bash reads ONE file, searching among the following items
> in sequence:
>
> a) ~/.bash_profile
> b) ~/.bash_login
> c) ~/.profile
>
> Whichever one it finds first, that's what it reads. If you also want it
> to read ~/.bashrc (you DO want this), then you must ensure that ~/.bashrc
> gets sourced/dotted from whatever file bash DOES read.
Thank you for the correction. I have just checked my home dir and indeed
~/.profile sources ~/.bashrc
Therefore, sourcing ~/.profile (instead of ~/.bashrc) at the end of
~/.bash_profile would be the correct move, as you have said.
Regards
--
Abdullah Ramazanoglu
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