In my studies of the startup files, I've encountered
the .profile and the .bashrc files. I understand that
there is a global one of each, and then there is a
user one of each.
What I don't understand is the purpose of the .bashrc
file. My documentation says it's for alias' and for
"functions". What is a function?? I suspect this is
getting into shell scripting...
It also said that some distro's forego the .bashrc and
put everything in the respective .profile file. So I
commented out my alias' (just one for color ls) and
moved them to the ~/.profile file. Worked fine...
What then is the logic behind having a .bashrc file?
And what are rc files (run control if I'm correct)
used for---there are rc files for x and kde and other
apps to. Are they running configuration files?
And maybe it's a Caldera thing---but why is roots home
directory outside the /home tree? Is this normal?
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