Date: Wed, 05 Sep 2001 12:44:29 -0700 From: David Johnson <djohnson@acuson.com> To: =?iso-8859-1?Q?S=F8ren?= Neigaard <neigaard@e-box.dk> Cc: freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: . files? Message-ID: <3B96809D.FFEBDA91@acuson.com> References: <1884559436.20010905213334@e-box.dk>
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Søren Neigaard wrote:
.profile
> In their home dir. What are they all for, witch are read when? Well...
> If someone could please give me a short intro into the dot file world,
> I would be very pleased.
A quickie lesson (I don't know them all), but man might...
.login = login file for csh, tcsh
.profile = login file for sh, bash
These files are read when a user logs in. Typically they set the path,
etc.
.cshrc = shell file for csh, tcsh
.shrc = shell file for sh, bash (sometimes named .bashrc for bash)
These are sourced every time you start a new shell.
.history = command line history for use with bash history.
David
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