Add to $PATH how?
Timothy Murphy
tim at birdsnest.maths.tcd.ie
Mon Jun 5 12:41:25 UTC 2006
On Sunday 04 June 2006 13:27, Fülöp Nándor wrote:
> (3) For all further shells (after logging in), bash reads and executes the
> commands in the `.bashrc' file in the home directory of actual user.
> Commands being in this file run whenever a new shell is started except for
> the login shell. (This file is also user-specific, like ``.bash_profile''!)
I understand the distinction between .bash_profile and .bashrc ,
but I just don't see what one would ever put in .bashrc
(apart from the call to /etc/bashrc which I am sure does something sensible).
Can you give me a concrete example of something extra in your ,bashrc ?
I'm wondering if the whole thing is not a hangover
from the age before GUI logins and multiple desktops?
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