Paul Allen Newell wrote: > Suvayu Ali wrote: >> Hi Aaron, >> >> On Monday 28 December 2009 02:11 PM, Aaron Konstam wrote: >>> On Mon, 2009-12-28 at 03:04 -0800, Suvayu Ali wrote: >>>> ~/.bash_profile gets sourced by any "well behaved" desktop environment >>>> when ever you login. In my experience XFCE and WindowMaker does >>>> this. (I >>>> don't use Gnome/KDE as often, so can't comment on them). >>>> >>>> ~/.bashrc gets sourced when ever you open an interactive shell, >>>> maybe by >>>> opening a terminal emulator or login in remotely. >>>> >>>> This means whenever you login remotely both ~/.bash_profile& >>>> ~/.bashrc >>>> gets sourced. However if you open a terminal emulator like >>>> gnome-terminal or xterm only your ~/.bashrc gets sourced. >>> >>> It is my impression that.bashrc is souurced whenever any program is run >>> in a bash environment. I am willing to be corrected. >>> >> >> By bash environment if you mean a terminal emulator then that is >> exactly what I meant in my previous post. However if for example you >> run something using a menu or shortcut on your desktop or maybe >> Alt-F2 then ~/.bashrc is _not_ sourced, and environment variables >> defined there won't be available to you. If you want something like >> that, you need to define it in your ~/.bash_profile. >> >> Hope this makes my point clearer. :) > Naive question .... it sounds like if a user has selected bash as > shell-of-choice, then bash_profile is there for any operation > (terminal or not) that would involve the use of the shell? I might not > be saying this right, but I am trying to understand just how global > bash_profile is and, if not, why it isn't as it seems by your email > that for all intents and purposes it is global to a user's login process. > > Thanks for bearing with the question given that you already know I am > running tcsh and therefore this is a learning exercise as opposed to a > real occurrence in my usage of fedora. > > Paul > Why not just read "man bash"?
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