Friday, June 1, 2012

Bash profile vs bashrc


Bash profile vs bashrc
December 14th, 2010
  1. "profile" is only executed per login.
  2. "bashrc" is executed per new shell instance.
  3. Doesn't apply to Mac OS though, where both are executed for new shell instance.
References:
  1. www.joshstaiger.org/archives/2005/07/bash_profile_vs.html
  2. www.tux.org/~mayer/linux/book/node217.html
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