Date: Fri, 25 Mar 2005 19:58:37 -0600 From: Kevin Kinsey <kdk@daleco.biz> To: Gert Cuykens <gert.cuykens@gmail.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: .cshrc Message-ID: <4244C1CD.3080606@daleco.biz> In-Reply-To: <ef60af09050325163613828b24@mail.gmail.com> References: <ef60af0905032515326bbeb618@mail.gmail.com> <20050325234152.GA12816@falcon.midgard.homeip.net> <ef60af0905032515552b123ce7@mail.gmail.com> <20050326002311.GA18807@falcon.midgard.homeip.net> <ef60af0905032516337d7e026d@mail.gmail.com> <ef60af09050325163613828b24@mail.gmail.com>
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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
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