Re: is there a startup script?

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.

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