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Re: is there a startup script?

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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.

-- 
Michael F. Stemper
If you take cranberries and stew them like applesauce they taste much
more like prunes than rhubarb does.

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is there a startup script? Daniel L Newhouse <dlnewhouse@gmail.com> - 2021-03-25 16:15 -0500
  Re: is there a startup script? Grant Taylor <gtaylor@tnetconsulting.net> - 2021-03-25 15:48 -0600
  Re: is there a startup script? Lewis <g.kreme@kreme.dont-email.me> - 2021-03-25 21:50 +0000
  Re: is there a startup script? "Michael F. Stemper" <mstemper@gmail.com> - 2021-03-26 12:30 -0500
    Re: is there a startup script? Daniel L Newhouse <dlnewhouse@gmail.com> - 2021-03-28 15:09 -0500
    Re: is there a startup script? Daniel L Newhouse <dlnewhouse@gmail.com> - 2021-03-28 15:12 -0500
      Re: is there a startup script? Daniel L Newhouse <dlnewhouse@gmail.com> - 2021-03-28 15:16 -0500
        Re: is there a startup script? Daniel L Newhouse <dlnewhouse@gmail.com> - 2021-03-28 16:24 -0500
          Re: is there a startup script? Daniel L Newhouse <dlnewhouse@gmail.com> - 2021-03-28 19:00 -0500
          Re: is there a startup script? Lewis <g.kreme@kreme.dont-email.me> - 2021-03-29 03:09 +0000
          Re: is there a startup script? Daniel L Newhouse <dlnewhouse@gmail.com> - 2021-05-26 19:45 -0500

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