Thanks You!
What is the difference between an interactive shell
and a subshell?
--- "T. Sean (Theo) Schulze" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:
> On 4/18/00 23:48, Eddis JEfferson at
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>
> >
> >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...
> >
>
> O'Reilly's "Learning the bash Shell" by Cameron
> Newham and Bill
> Rosenblatt, says that bash uses three files,
> .bash_profile, .bashrc and
> .bash_logout.
>
> .bash_profile (which can also be named .bash_login)
> is executed when you
> log in. When you log in, bash will first look for
> .bash_profile. If it
> doesn't find it, it will then look for .bash_login
> and then .profile.
> You can place commands you want to run when you
> login in this file. For
> example, if you wanted a calendar printed to the
> screen, or fortune run,
> or your schedule for the day displayed when you
> first logged in, these
> commands would go in .bash_profile. Note that the
> Bourne shell also
> reads its information from .profile. According to
> the book, "a similar
> approach was intended for .bash_login and the C
> shell .login, but due to
> differences in the basic syntax of the shells, this
> is not a good idea."
>
> .bashrc is executed every time you start up a new
> subshell. If you want
> the same commands to run in your interactive shells
> as run in your login
> shell, you can use the source command within
> .bash_profile to run your
> .bashrc file.
>
> .bash_logout is read a login shell exits. An
> example usage is to have
> the screen clear as you log out, so that whoever
> sits down afterward at
> that terminal doesn't see a screen full of your
> latest novel, or whatever.
>
> >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...
>
> On my SuSE 6.3 system, the default .bashrc says at
> the top, "~/.bashrc is
> read for interactive shells and ~/.profile is read
> for login shells. We
> just let ~/.profile also read ~/.bashrc and put
> everything in ~/.bashrc."
>
>
> >
> >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?
> >
>
> Yes.
>
> >And maybe it's a Caldera thing---but why is roots
> home
> >directory outside the /home tree? Is this normal?
> >
>
> On my SuSE system, root's home directory is /root.
> I believe (although
> it has been a while) that on my old NetBSD system,
> root's home directory
> was literally the root directory, /, but I am
> probably wrong.
>
> Cheers,
> Sean
>
>
>
> T. Sean (Theo) Schulze
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> ****************************************************
>
> ...determines to remain actively seized of the
> matter.
>
>
>
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