profile of bash

2006-11-06 Thread Ronald
Why bash has so many profiles, like .bash_login .bash_logout .bash_profile .profile .bashrc profile bashrc By design? Why? Thanks. ___ Bug-bash mailing list Bug-bash@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-bash

Re: profile of bash

2006-11-06 Thread Bob Proulx
Ronald wrote: > Why bash has so many profiles, like > .bash_login > .bash_logout > .bash_profile > .profile > .bashrc > profile > bashrc > > By design? Why? It is for legacy support, useful features, compatible capabilities. The traditional Bourne shell read /etc/profile and $HOME/.profile. So