Date: Wed, 03 Mar 2004 16:39:19 +0000 From: Peter Risdon <peter@circlesquared.com> To: Bob Perry <rperry4@earthlink.net> Cc: FreeBSD-Questions <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Help Setting Up .bashrc Message-ID: <40460A37.6060605@circlesquared.com> In-Reply-To: <4043619E.4010605@earthlink.net> References: <4043619E.4010605@earthlink.net>
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Bob Perry wrote:
> Hello,
>
> My environment variables indicate SHELL=/usr/local/bin/bash and
> ENV=/home/rperry/.shrc. My understanding is that bash reads
> ~/.bashrc for interactive shells and $ENV for non-interactive shells.
> I don't have the ~/.bashrc file. Neither do I have a ~/.bash_profile,
> or a ~/.bash_login file.
>
> I also see where the startup files for bash are .profile and .bashrc.
> One of the settings in my .profile indicates that ENV=$HOME/.shrc;
> export ENV.
>
> I've read where bash will read other files (e.g., .shrc, etc.) when
> it's own
> initialization files are not present but I'd like to set up the
> appropriate
> bash files anyway. I've seen examples of the .bashrc file in some text
> but was looking for something from within FreeBSD. I found some
> /src/share/skel/dot.* files but none for bash. Can anyone tell me if
> such
> sample files exists and where I might find them? Do I need really need
> them?
>
> Thank you.
> Bob Perry
>
man bash:
When bash is invoked as an interactive login shell, or as a non-inter-
active shell with the --login option, it first reads and
executes com-
mands from the file /etc/profile, if that file exists. After
reading
that file, it looks for ~/.bash_profile, ~/.bash_login, and
~/.profile,
in that order, and reads and executes commands from the first
one that
exists and is readable. The --noprofile option may be used
when the
shell is started to inhibit this behavior.
So the skel/dot.profile is used by bash.
PWR.
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