Order of .profile & .bashrc
Larry Hall (Cygwin)
reply-to-list-only-lh@cygwin.com
Thu Dec 16 23:27:00 GMT 2010
On 12/16/2010 3:42 PM, jwzumwalt wrote:
>
>
> http://tiswww.case.edu/php/chet/bash/bash.html#lbAH
> or
> $ man bash
> or
> $ info bash
>
> Thank you for your reply... No mention is made of the following files :)
>
> /etc/bash.bashrc
> /etc/skel/.bash_profile
> /etc/skel/.inputrc
> $HOME/.bash_profile - commands inside this file only get executed by the
> login shell.
> /etc/X11/xinit/xinitrc â executed when xwindows start, startup programs
>
From the bash man page:
When bash is invoked as an interactive login shell, or as a non-interâ
active shell with the --login option, it first reads and executes comâ
mands 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.
From your ~/.bash_profile file:
# source the system wide bashrc if it exists
if [ -e /etc/bash.bashrc ] ; then
source /etc/bash.bashrc
fi
Files under /etc/skel are templates that get copied into user home directories
when they are first accessed.
xinitrc is from X. See "man xinit".
--
Larry
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