From owner-freebsd-newbies Wed Sep 5 12:44:37 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org Received: from odin.acuson.com (odin.acuson.com [157.226.230.71]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5497037B407 for ; Wed, 5 Sep 2001 12:44:33 -0700 (PDT) Received: from acuson.com ([157.226.46.72]) by odin.acuson.com (Netscape Messaging Server 3.54) with ESMTP id AAA473B; Wed, 5 Sep 2001 12:44:28 -0700 Message-ID: <3B96809D.FFEBDA91@acuson.com> Date: Wed, 05 Sep 2001 12:44:29 -0700 From: David Johnson Organization: Acuson X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.7 [en] (X11; U; SunOS 5.5.1 sun4u) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: =?iso-8859-1?Q?S=F8ren?= Neigaard Cc: freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: . files? References: <1884559436.20010905213334@e-box.dk> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Sender: owner-freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org 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 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-newbies" in the body of the message