Re: is there a startup script?

On Fri, 26 Mar 2021 12:30:06 -0500, "Michael F. Stemper"
<[email protected]> wrote:

Well, they don't have that in cygwin.  I remember cygwin being a
little more flexible than it is.  Cygwin needs to be based on
OpenSUSE.  The only viable alternative would be Darwin. 


>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.