Difference between revisions of "Profiles"

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The profile scripts used by Bash (version 3) and tcsh (v6.13) look something like this:
 
The profile scripts used by Bash (version 3) and tcsh (v6.13) look something like this:
  
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Revision as of 10:21, 29 January 2008

All users on a system have the ability to customize their environment to their taste. This can involve choosing a shell such as bash, zsh, or tcsh, setting the environment, shell aliases, or running scripts at startup. These tasks are all handled by various "profile scripts".

There can be a fair amount of confusion as to what scripts are called, and in what order (tcsh is especially bad in this regard).

The profile scripts used by Bash (version 3) and tcsh (v6.13) look something like this:

Bash profile scripts.png
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Tcsh profile scripts.png
Image source