Bash_profile vs. .bashrc

http://www.joshstaiger.org/archives/2005/07/bash_profile_vs.html

by akandiah • 12 years ago

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RexRollman2• 12 years ago

In the example he gives, like many I have seen on the Internet, it tests for .bashrc and if it exists, sources it. But if you didn't test it and for some reason .bashrc didn't exist, what would happen? And if nothing bad would happen, why test for it?

akandiah• 12 years ago

It's just for cleanliness. The script would error out with something along the lines of "No such file or directory".

RexRollman2• 12 years ago

Thanks. I've never tried it out and was curious if anyone knew.

blippe2• 12 years ago

I would recommend reading[0] instead.

[0] http://www.thegeekstuff.com/2008/10/execution-sequence-for-b...

blippe2• 12 years ago

And quite honestly the man page of bash is quite readable, under invocation. http://linux.die.net/man/1/bash

Canada• 12 years ago

In my opinion the only thing .bash_profile should do is source .bashrc, that way the environment is consistent regardless of invocation.

Bash_profile vs. .bashrc

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