On Tue, Feb 19, 2013 at 02:43:12PM GMT, William Muriithi wrote: > That's correct. Bash use .bash_profile for user specific changes and > /etc/profile for system wide configurations
Hi William, That's not entirely accurate - under certain circumstances Bash does indeed read $HOME/.profile. When it comes to reading startup files, Bash's behaviour can be somewhat confusing. I highly recommend reading the blog post below as well as respective documentation... and I also highly recommend Zsh ;^) [0] http://shreevatsa.wordpress.com/2008/03/30/zshbash-startup-files-loading-order-bashrc-zshrc-etc/ > William Regards, Raf -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: beginners-unsubscr...@perl.org For additional commands, e-mail: beginners-h...@perl.org http://learn.perl.org/
