On Sunday 04 June 2006 13:27, Fülöp Nándor wrote: > (3) For all further shells (after logging in), bash reads and executes the > commands in the `.bashrc' file in the home directory of actual user. > Commands being in this file run whenever a new shell is started except for > the login shell. (This file is also user-specific, like ``.bash_profile''!) I understand the distinction between .bash_profile and .bashrc , but I just don't see what one would ever put in .bashrc (apart from the call to /etc/bashrc which I am sure does something sensible). Can you give me a concrete example of something extra in your ,bashrc ? I'm wondering if the whole thing is not a hangover from the age before GUI logins and multiple desktops? -- Timothy Murphy e-mail (<80k only): tim /at/ birdsnest.maths.tcd.ie tel: +353-86-2336090, +353-1-2842366 s-mail: School of Mathematics, Trinity College, Dublin 2, Ireland
