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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting .bashrc file Post 302366051 by cfajohnson on Wednesday 28th of October 2009 04:29:06 PM
Old 10-28-2009
Quote:
Originally Posted by gentleDean
I am using bash shell and I cant find any .bashrc file in my home dir. Can anybody please help me out here....

man bash:
Code:
       When bash is invoked as an interactive login shell, or as a
       non-interactive shell with the --login option, it first reads
       and executes commands from the file /etc/profile, if that file
       exists. After reading that file, it looks for ~/.bash_profile,
       ~/.bash_login, and ~/.profile, in that order, and reads and
       executes commands from the first one that exists and is
       readable. The --noprofile option may be used when the shell is
       started to inhibit this behavior.

       When an interactive shell that is not a login shell is started,
       bash reads and executes commands from ~/.bashrc, if that file
       exists. This may be inhibited by using the --norc option. The
       --rcfile file option will force bash to read and execute
       commands from file instead of ~/.bashrc.



---------- Post updated at 04:29 PM ---------- Previous update was at 04:23 PM ----------
Quote:
Originally Posted by drl
On Linux systems there are files often used as sources for new account (login) creations. On the system:
Code:
OS, ker|rel, machine: Linux, 2.6.26-2-amd64, x86_64
Distribution        : Debian GNU/Linux 5.0

the .bashrc file is at:
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/etc/skel/.bashrc

It's about 100 lines and should be a good start.

100 lines is excessive. On mine (Mandriva), there are three uncommented, non-empty lines.
 

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