From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Mar 1 08:14:58 2004 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 59DAB16A4CE for ; Mon, 1 Mar 2004 08:14:58 -0800 (PST) Received: from snipe.mail.pas.earthlink.net (snipe.mail.pas.earthlink.net [207.217.120.62]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 508D743D2F for ; Mon, 1 Mar 2004 08:14:58 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from rperry4@earthlink.net) Received: from dialup-171.75.72.43.dial1.weehawken.level3.net ([171.75.72.43] helo=earthlink.net) by snipe.mail.pas.earthlink.net with esmtp (Exim 3.33 #1) id 1Axq4F-0004TZ-00 for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Mon, 01 Mar 2004 08:14:55 -0800 Message-ID: <4043619E.4010605@earthlink.net> Date: Mon, 01 Mar 2004 11:15:26 -0500 From: Bob Perry User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; FreeBSD i386; en-US; rv:1.6) Gecko/20040222 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: FreeBSD-Questions Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: Help Setting Up .bashrc 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: Mon, 01 Mar 2004 16:14:58 -0000 Hello, My environment variables indicate SHELL=/usr/local/bin/bash and ENV=/home/rperry/.shrc. My understanding is that bash reads ~/.bashrc for interactive shells and $ENV for non-interactive shells. I don't have the ~/.bashrc file. Neither do I have a ~/.bash_profile, or a ~/.bash_login file. I also see where the startup files for bash are .profile and .bashrc. One of the settings in my .profile indicates that ENV=$HOME/.shrc; export ENV. I've read where bash will read other files (e.g., .shrc, etc.) when it's own initialization files are not present but I'd like to set up the appropriate bash files anyway. I've seen examples of the .bashrc file in some text but was looking for something from within FreeBSD. I found some /src/share/skel/dot.* files but none for bash. Can anyone tell me if such sample files exists and where I might find them? Do I need really need them? Thank you. Bob Perry -- I've learned that whatever hits the fan will not be evenly distributed. FreeBSD 4.9-RELEASE-p2 #0