From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Mar 26 01:58:41 2005 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 35DB916A4CE for ; Sat, 26 Mar 2005 01:58:41 +0000 (GMT) Received: from ns1.tiadon.com (SMTP.tiadon.com [69.27.132.161]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 880D243D64 for ; Sat, 26 Mar 2005 01:58:40 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from kdk@daleco.biz) Received: from [69.27.131.0] ([69.27.131.0]) by ns1.tiadon.com with Microsoft SMTPSVC(6.0.3790.211); Fri, 25 Mar 2005 19:55:31 -0600 Message-ID: <4244C1CD.3080606@daleco.biz> Date: Fri, 25 Mar 2005 19:58:37 -0600 From: Kevin Kinsey User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; FreeBSD i386; en-US; rv:1.7.3) Gecko/20041210 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Gert Cuykens References: <20050325234152.GA12816@falcon.midgard.homeip.net> <20050326002311.GA18807@falcon.midgard.homeip.net> In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-OriginalArrivalTime: 26 Mar 2005 01:55:32.0276 (UTC) FILETIME=[E4CADF40:01C531A6] cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: .cshrc X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 26 Mar 2005 01:58:41 -0000 Gert Cuykens wrote: >Is .profile read by every shell ? > > It's for the Bourne type shells (sh, and bash), but I'm not into those, so I'm not sure if bash cares about .profile or not, or if there's a way to tell it that it should read that. IIRC, there's a .bashrc for bash, just as there is, IIRC, a .shrc for sh, the original Bourne shell. (You do know that "bash" is an acronym for "Bourne Again SHell", right? A play on the English translation of Jesus' words to Nicodemus in John III:iii: "Except a man be born again ..." which was probably particularly funny in America in the late 1970s...) .cshrc is read by csh/tcsh, which, incidentally enough, are the same thing on FreeBSD unless for some reason diff(1) is idiotic in this regard: [604] Fri 25.Mar.2005 19:48:40 [kadmin@archangel][/home/shared] # diff /bin/csh /bin/tcsh --- and I suppose that's why there's no .tcshrc AFAIK on FBSD. HTH, Kevin Kinsey