Reality check on bash behavior.
John Summerfied
debian at herakles.homelinux.org
Mon Jan 16 23:02:42 UTC 2006
Jeff Vian wrote:
> On Mon, 2006-01-16 at 11:04 +0000, Paul Howarth wrote:
>
>>Jeff Vian wrote:
>>
>>>I know that on Linux a bash shell parses .profile _and_ ~/.bash_profile.
>>>I cannot speak for differences in OS X, although I would not expect any.
>>>
>>>AIUI the .profile contains configurations that are used by all and the
>>>~/.bash_profile makes user specific modifications.
>>
>>Sure you don't mean /etc/profile when you write .profile ?
>>
>>Paul.
>>
>
> Thanks for the wakeup slap Paul. That is exactly what I meant.
> Time for more coffee <grin>.
>
Some distros do have ~/.profile (I think Debian does).
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John
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