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When you start a login shell, bash consults the following files in the specified order:
1. /etc/profile
2. ~/.bash.profile
3. ~/.bash_login
4. ~/.profile
When you start a nonlogin shell, bash consults only one startup file, ~/bash.rc.
Originally posted by SaTaN When you start a login shell, bash consults the following files in the specified order:
1. /etc/profile
2. ~/.bash.profile
3. ~/.bash_login
4. ~/.profile
When you start a nonlogin shell, bash consults only one startup file, ~/bash.rc.
What do you mean by "nonlogin shell"? When OS starts?
Just think of a non-login shell as when you open a new instance of bash up after youve logged in - each time you do this the ~/.bashrc file is read - this file is good for putting Aliases in amongst other things.
is there any command that can be use for restarting the .bash_profile, so don;t have to restart the whole pc?
i mean, like in windows, you can restart the 'explorer' only if you made changes in registry....
If you run it like:
$ .bash_profile
it creates a new process to run the file. Any aliases created will be valid only for that process. When the file is finished running, that process ends, and the new aliases expire.
If you run it like:
$ . .bash_profile
it runs it in the current process. When the file is finished executing, the new aliases are still valid.
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