Re: Reality check on bash behavior.

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Jeff Vian wrote:
On Mon, 2006-01-16 at 11:04 +0000, Paul Howarth wrote:

Jeff Vian wrote:

I know that on Linux a bash shell parses .profile _and_ ~/.bash_profile.
I cannot speak for differences in OS X, although I would not expect any.

AIUI the .profile contains configurations that are used by all and the
~/.bash_profile makes user specific modifications.

Sure you don't mean /etc/profile when you write .profile ?

Paul.


Thanks for the wakeup slap Paul. That is exactly what I meant.
Time for more coffee <grin>.

Some distros do have ~/.profile (I think Debian does).



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