Ed Greshko wrote:
Paul Allen Newell wrote:
Suvayu Ali wrote:
Hi Aaron,
On Monday 28 December 2009 02:11 PM, Aaron Konstam wrote:
On Mon, 2009-12-28 at 03:04 -0800, Suvayu Ali wrote:
~/.bash_profile gets sourced by any "well behaved" desktop environment
when ever you login. In my experience XFCE and WindowMaker does
this. (I
don't use Gnome/KDE as often, so can't comment on them).
~/.bashrc gets sourced when ever you open an interactive shell,
maybe by
opening a terminal emulator or login in remotely.
This means whenever you login remotely both ~/.bash_profile&
~/.bashrc
gets sourced. However if you open a terminal emulator like
gnome-terminal or xterm only your ~/.bashrc gets sourced.
It is my impression that.bashrc is souurced whenever any program is run
in a bash environment. I am willing to be corrected.
By bash environment if you mean a terminal emulator then that is
exactly what I meant in my previous post. However if for example you
run something using a menu or shortcut on your desktop or maybe
Alt-F2 then ~/.bashrc is _not_ sourced, and environment variables
defined there won't be available to you. If you want something like
that, you need to define it in your ~/.bash_profile.
Hope this makes my point clearer. :)
Naive question .... it sounds like if a user has selected bash as
shell-of-choice, then bash_profile is there for any operation
(terminal or not) that would involve the use of the shell? I might not
be saying this right, but I am trying to understand just how global
bash_profile is and, if not, why it isn't as it seems by your email
that for all intents and purposes it is global to a user's login process.
Thanks for bearing with the question given that you already know I am
running tcsh and therefore this is a learning exercise as opposed to a
real occurrence in my usage of fedora.
Paul
Why not just read "man bash"?
Because bring up the "man bash" pages and searching for "profile" gives
me info about what happens with a shell or a non-interactive --login
shell and doesn't give me any meta information that either answers my
question or makes it clear that I am asking the wrong question.
http://www.gnu.org/software/bash/manual/bashref.html
One of the reasons to watch/read this forum is to get answers to
questions that man pages don't supply. In my experience, if you want to
know exactly how to do something with a given command/whatever, they are
great. If you want to get an understanding of the overall picture of the
command/whatever, they aren't very good as they assume you have already
commit to "this is what I am using so how do I do this particular
operation".
To ask what is the scope of ".bash_profile" outside of sourcing order in
particular occurrences, I don't see it in the man pages.
I am more than happy to be told that I am totally incorrect in my
interpretation of this.
Thanks (and that includes making me double-check the man pages to prove
to myself that I am not seeing the answer I am looking for!),
Paul
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