On Mon, Dec 2, 2024 at 10:22 AM GianPiero Puccioni <gianpiero.pucci...@isc.cnr.it> wrote: > > On 01/12/2024 19:52, Joe Wulf via users wrote: > > For what it is worth, locally changing things like PS1 and environment > > variable assignments should be made in .bashrc, not .bash_profile. > > > When I started with Unix, a long time ago, it was Env Var in profile and > aliases > and other stuff in *rc depending on your shell.
This has always been and is correct. The explanation lies in when the startup files are executed. ~/.bashrc gets executed by each interactive shell Therefore here belong - functions that, by default, are not exported by/cannot be inherited from the parent process - aliases that are not exported by/cannot be inherited from the parent process - prompt - PS1 shell variable (not an environment variable) - set by bash, can be modified by the user Note, that environment variables are inherited from the parent process and need not be set here. ~/.bash_profile (or ~/.bash_login or ~/.profile) gets executed by login shell/at session start-up Therefore setting environment variables belongs here. Also ~/.bashrc needs to be executed here in case the login shell is interactive. greg -- _______________________________________________ users mailing list -- users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe send an email to users-le...@lists.fedoraproject.org Fedora Code of Conduct: https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/project/code-of-conduct/ List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines List Archives: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/users@lists.fedoraproject.org Do not reply to spam, report it: https://pagure.io/fedora-infrastructure/new_issue
