Re: is there a startup script?

On Sun, 28 Mar 2021 15:12:58 -0500, Daniel L Newhouse
<[email protected]> wrote:

Maybe it should be OpenBSD to avoid the Macintosh association.

>On Fri, 26 Mar 2021 12:30:06 -0500, "Michael F. Stemper"
><[email protected]> wrote:
>
>I remember cygwin being more fliexible.  Basically, it needs to based
>on Darwin.  Which means it needs to be like a Macintosh. 
>
>>On 25/03/2021 16.15, Daniel L Newhouse wrote:
>>> I'm looking through the OReilly book.  I'm used to the t-shell.  Does
>>> this shell have a startup script?
>>
>>Well, there is ~/.profile, which I mostly use for setting environment
>>variables. It's only run (as I understand it) for login shells. However,
>>if you're running in a windowing environment, other windows appear to
>>inherit all of those variables.
>>
>>Then, there is ~/.bashrc, which bash runs for non-login shells.
>>
>>There is also ~/.bash_aliases, which is used to set command aliases in
>>interactive use. My ~/.bashrc conditionally executes it (the condition
>>being if ~/.bash_aliases exists). I don't think that this is really
>>a fundamental part of the bash ecosystem.