It says that the /etc/profile file sets the environment variables at startup of the Bash shell. The /etc/profile.d directory contains other scripts that contain application-specific startup files, …

Feb 27, 2019 · The original sh sourced .profile on startup. bash will try to source .bash_profile first, but if that doesn't exist, it will source .profile. Note that if bash is started as sh (e.g. /bin/sh …

The .profile dates back to the original Bourne shell known as sh. Since the GNU shell bash is (depending on its options) a superset of the Bourne shell, both shells can use the same …

You can add it to the file .profile or your login shell profile file (located in your home directory). To change the environmental variable "permanently" you'll need to consider at least these situations:

What's the difference and which is better to use when customizing my bash profile? Documentation on the export command is scarce, as it's a builtin cmd. Excerpt from version 1 …

Feb 21, 2016 · The profile file is read by login shells, so it will only take effect the next time you log in. (Some systems configure terminals to read a login shell; in that case you can start a …

Well I tried your way for creating a custom function of printing it's argument, but even if I add that function in .bash_profile then also I have to do source ~/.bash_profile everytime I open …

My comment is just a stronger statement of Ilmari Karonen's 2014 comment. It is factually incorrect to say ".bashrc runs on every interactive shell launch". A login shell is an interactive …

Because .profile is read by all Bourne-compatible shells, you should not write Bash syntax in that file. In particular, export VARIABLE=value needs to be refactored into VARIABLE=value; …

Apr 21, 2016 · Is ~/.bashrc the only place to specify user specific environment variables, aliases, modifications to PATH variable, etc? I ask because it seems that ~/.bashrc seems to be bash …