On 2003-02-12 11:29, Jim Trigg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Wed, Feb 12, 2003 at 05:22:08PM +0200, Giorgos Keramidas wrote: > > The files that bash runs for login shells are in order: > > > > ~/.bash_profile > > ~/.bash_login > > ~/.profile > > > > Any of these can include the `. .bashrc' command, but I picked > > .bash_profile because it's what I commonly use. > > That is true but not quite accurate; bash will only run one of the > three, so if you have a .bash_login (for example), putting the command > in .profile will have no effect, and there is no point to having both > .bash_profile and .bash_login as only .bash_profile will get used.
Yep. Bash stops trying to find a startup file for login shells when one of the files mentioned above is found. Perhaps my wording was not very good :) To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
