Paul Allen Newell wrote:
I think part of my confusion is that I am not understanding whether a
login shell covers everything that is done once I have logged in via
splash screen or if it is confined to "logining into a shell". If the
former, then I would assume bash_profiles is hit once and everything
done thereafter would be under its command. If the latter, then I am
probably unclear about whether launching a terminal is a "login" act
(hence under bash_profile only within that shell).
As I said on my initial reply to this thread, "Naive question". I may
be missing a fundamental understanding of shells and logins and all
that sort of stuff.
A login shell is what it says it is. A shell created as a consequence
of logging in. That could be a console login in run level 3, the GUI
login screen in run level 5, an ssh login from a remote system, etc.
Starting, for example, "gnome-terminal", does not constitute a login shell.
One thing you can do to learn when .bashrc and .bash_profile are sourced
is to add something like....
touch /tmp/bashrc.time to the end of your .bashrc file and a similar
line to your .bash_profile. Then you can
"ls -l --time-style=full-iso" (to display the seconds).
I also think you may want to learn about PID's and PPID's (Process ID,
and Parent Process ID).
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