Hi All,
Can some one tell me exactly what sequence of files are called as in the .my_profile,.profile,.vimrc,.vim.
These are few files that I are there on the server.I want to know which file is called first and what sequence.Also can you point me to some links that tell exactly what are these files for.

Regards,
Ajit

Type "man bash" and search for "INVOCATION" and it will tell you about which profiles are loaded and in which order.

In addition to standard order of things any one of the files might invoke another file (e.g. .my_profile is not a standard so is presumably something local to your system and there is probably a line like ". $HOME/.my_profile" in your .profile or .bashrc or .bash_profile).

The .vimrc and .vim files are specific to vim (which is an enhanced version of vi - on most Linux systems when you type "vi" you are actually running vim). Accordingly they become active and are only relevant to when you use vim/vi and typically wouldn't be invoked until then. You can get more detail by typing "man vim".

Other dot files in your home directory are similarly tied to specific applications (e.g. .firefox and/or .mozilla might be for when you are in Firefox browser, .gnome* are for the Gnome windowing system).

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