Bash_profile vs. .bashrc(joshstaiger.org)

24 pointsby akandiah12 tahun yang lalu6 comments

joshstaiger.org

Bash_profile vs. .bashrc

http://www.joshstaiger.org/archives/2005/07/bash_profile_vs.html

3 comments

blippe12 tahun yang lalu

I would recommend reading[0] instead.

[0] http://www.thegeekstuff.com/2008/10/execution-sequence-for-b...

blippe12 tahun yang lalu

And quite honestly the man page of bash is quite readable, under invocation. http://linux.die.net/man/1/bash

Canada12 tahun yang lalu

In my opinion the only thing .bash_profile should do is source .bashrc, that way the environment is consistent regardless of invocation.

RexRollman12 tahun yang lalu

In the example he gives, like many I have seen on the Internet, it tests for .bashrc and if it exists, sources it. But if you didn't test it and for some reason .bashrc didn't exist, what would happen? And if nothing bad would happen, why test for it?

akandiah12 tahun yang lalu

It's just for cleanliness. The script would error out with something along the lines of "No such file or directory".

RexRollman12 tahun yang lalu

Thanks. I've never tried it out and was curious if anyone knew.