On Fri, Jun 24, 2022 at 7:28 PM Barry barry@barrys-emacs.org wrote:
On 24 Jun 2022, at 16:36, Roger Heflin rogerheflin@gmail.com wrote:
Trick is add this around the path add.
If [ $path_add -ne 1 ] ; then Path addition code Path_add=1 Fi
That only runs it once.
This is a work around for using ,bashrc when .bash_profile is where this should be done.
I think that advice goes back to a time before modern GUI's. Now many users have never encountered a terminal, and distros vary widely in the use of ~/.bashrc, ~/.bash_profle, and ~/.profile.
On my Fedora 35 box, ~/.bash_profile is:
----------------------------------ser # .bash_profile
# Get the aliases and functions if [ -f ~/.bashrc ]; then . ~/.bashrc fi
# User specific environment and startup programs ---------------------------
Some distros have complicated ~/.bashrc or `/.bash_profile files with a section devoted to interactive sessions. This led to issues where users added settings in the wrong section. I often ask users to run a failing command in a terminal where they may see messages that their GUI tools hide, but getting different behaviours between GUI and terminal has become a problem.