On Mon, 9 Apr 2001, Aaron Brashears wrote:
> Be sure to copy anything important out of .bash_profile into
> .bashrc. Of course, if you just append the contents, it will save some
> time.
Uh. This is NOT a good idea. .bashrc is run whenever a child shell
is launched. IE every time a command you issue happens to be a shell script.
.bashrc should be kept to the bare minimum, because the child is going to
inherit most, if not all of its settings from the parent shell process
anyway.
>
> $ cat .bash_profile >> .bashrc
> $ rm .bash_profile
> $ ln -s .bashrc .bash_profile
No, no no. Don't DO this! Now you're running everything multiple times!
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