@MadeInGermany: good question! My answer is a firm: that depends. ;-))
As i said earlier, .profile is executed once for every login(-shell), .rc-files (depending on the login shell ~/.kshrc or ~/.bashrc or even something else) are executed for every new shell. Whatever you want to execute every time you log in goes to the profile, whatever you want executed for every new shell goes to the rc-file.
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Originally Posted by MadeInGermany
As pointed out earlier,
in .bashrc can end up in multiple :/dir/to/add:/dir/to/add:..., because each nested shell runs another .bashrc at start-up.
True. In some environments i put a sort-of "reentrancy-protection" into my .kshrc to prevent that:
But i have to say that nested shells happen rarely at my workplace. My typical environment consists of an X-server, mwm on top and many xterms. The login session starts the window manager via exec, so the shells in the xterms are each first-level shells because the login-process was replaced by the mwm.
I do not use "desktops" like KDE, GNOME or whatever they are called if i can avoid it, so i can say nothing about how these work.
:) as soon as i installed my software a couple of weeks ago..
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woo.
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