> Sent: Thursday, December 26, 2024 at 5:56 AM
> From: "Chris Green" <c...@isbd.net>
> To: debian-user@lists.debian.org
> Subject: Re: bashrc question
>
> hen...@privatembox.com wrote:
> >
> > So, since I am using a login shell, and I have .bashrc created. thus I
> > have to create a .profile to include .bashrc? Am I right?
> >
> Yes, I think that's the right way round.
>
> I use ssh a lot and have a 'standard' configuration for all the
> systems I ssh into.
>
> On all of them most of my basic environment settings are in .profile
> and that calls .bashrc.
>
> Make sure you **don't** have either ~/.bash_profile or ~/.bash_login
> as these will be used instead of ~/.profile if they exist.
>
> Note that (according to my understanding anyway) .bashrc should be
> used for settings that are needed for interactive shells whereas
> .profile is used for settings that are used by all programs not just
> interactive ones.
>
> --
> Chris Green
> ยท
>
>
[alarm@alarm ~]$ cat .bashrc
#
# ~/.bashrc
#
# If not running interactively, don't do anything
[[ $- != *i* ]] && return
alias ls='ls --color=auto'
alias grep='grep --color=auto'
PS1='[\u@\h \W]\$ '
[alarm@alarm ~]$ cat .bash_profile
#
# ~/.bash_profile
#
[[ -f ~/.bashrc ]] && . ~/.bashrc
