"Dotan Cohen" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> On a Debian-based system running KDE 3.5.10 I see several files that
> are used when logging in / starting a Konsole:
>
> .profile
> .bash_history
> .bash_logout
> .bash_profile
> .bashrc
>
> Thanks in advance. If there are any good docs that explain this, I'd
> love to see them. I have not been able to google anything recent that
> is relevant to Debian.
man bash answers most of your questions:
FILES
/bin/bash
The bash executable
/etc/profile
The systemwide initialization file, executed for login shells
/etc/bash.bashrc
The systemwide per-interactive-shell startup file
/etc/bash.logout
The systemwide login shell cleanup file, executed when a login
shell exits
~/.bash_profile
The personal initialization file, executed for login shells
~/.bashrc
The individual per-interactive-shell startup file
~/.bash_logout
The individual login shell cleanup file, executed when a login
shell exits
~/.inputrc
Individual readline initialization file
I believe .profile and .bash_profile are synonyms, so you'd only use one
or the other. .bash_history holds your command line history, and is not
used for runtime configuration. I'm not sure what shell scripts run from
another application do. I would guess they stuff done in .bashrc would
affect them, but not stuff in *profile.
Cheers,
Tyler
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