Special Characters

[nomnex]

On Fri, 17 Jun 2011 11:51:17 -0700
suvayu ali <fatkasuvayu+linux at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Thu, Jun 16, 2011 at 9:46 PM, nomnex <nomnex at gmail.com> wrote:

> > On Thu, 16 Jun 2011 23:46:39 -0430
> > Patrick O'Callaghan <pocallaghan at gmail.com> wrote:

> >> The '&' is not part of the command. It's an instruction to the
> >> Shell to run the command in the background. See any beginner's

<snip>

> > the applications. so, the '&' part is superfluous when I pass the
> > command in my bashrc file, I guess.
 
> I would like to point out that these things are better placed in your
> ~/.bash_profile instead of ~/.bashrc.

Why is it better to use the bash_profile instead of ~/.bashrc.


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nomnex <nomnex at gmail.com>