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Originally Posted by msb65
Hi Yogesh,
I appreciate your help. Perhaps you can clear up one other path related issue.
- Why modify the .bash_profile instead of the .bashrc?
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On your system there seems to be no difference between the two; one always sources the other if it exists. On my system, .bashrc is always sourced when I login, but .bash_profile is skipped for noninteractive shells.
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Like I said I am using BASH on a Mac running Leopard. For the most part I use Terminal for my command line related work. However, sometimes I use X11 as well. I noticed that when i typed "echo $PATH" in a Terminal shell it returned a different series of directories than when I did the same in an X11 shell. I believe this is because those two programs check different environment files. Is that correct?
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Maybe. I've noticed that Apple sometimes customizes these things in odd ways.
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A user in a different forum suggested that I modify my .bash_profile and .bashrc files. Can you tell what exactly is going on? Here are the contents:
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Please use code tags for code. like [ code ] asdf [ /code ] except without the extra spaces.
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# Checks if the ~/.aliases file exists; if it does, sources it.
if [ -f ~/.aliases ]; then
. ~/.aliases
fi
# Something to do with file size limits. Mine doesn't have -Ss, so see
# 'man ulimit' on your system..
ulimit -Ss unlimited
# Includes some mac-specific environment variables, perhaps
source /Users/msb65/seadas5.2/config/seadas.env
