Re: is there a startup script?

On Sun, 28 Mar 2021 16:24:29 -0500, Daniel L Newhouse
<[email protected]> wrote:

K, I was looking for the following syntax for cygwin
PS1 = "\s-\v\w"

On 4th thought, it should be minix.

>On Sun, 28 Mar 2021 15:16:15 -0500, Daniel L Newhouse
><[email protected]> wrote:
>
>There's another reason to use OpenBSD instead of Darwin.  The
>nix-Darwin symbol looks like the devil.  
>
>>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.