Special Characters

[Patrick O'Callaghan]

On Tue, 2011-06-21 at 08:37 +0900, nomnex wrote:
> 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.

info bash

Look for section 6.2, Bash Startup Files

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