Re: [Sheflug] .profile difference

["Chris J" <xxxxx [at] xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

> Hi,
> 
> Can someone please tell me what the difference between .profile in the /etc directory and .bash_profile in the home directory is?
> 

Lesson one ... don't send HTML mail to the list :) Switch it off in Outlook, 
please.

As for the profiles;

	/etc/profile	- Global settings used by bash/ksh/sh. Executed by
		login shell.
	$HOME/.profile	- Local settings for each user. Used by bash/ksh/sh.
		Executed after /etc/profile
	$HOME/.bash_profile - Similar to $HOME/.profile but is used by bash only.

Why Bash has to have yet another setup file on top of .profile I don't know. 
ksh/sh seem to co-exist quite happily with just .profile ... but anyhow, I 
digress.

I think there's an /etc/bash_profile as well ... but I'm not a bash user (I 
always use ksh at command line and either ksh or sh for scripts as it's more 
portable across UNIXes), so someone else might want to confirm ?

The man page for bash(1) should have more details.

Chris...

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