On 03/05/2013, at 1:40 PM, Jeremy Lavergne wrote: >> As I understand Unix-like systems, there are three scripts that can >> operate when you are logging in: .login, .profile and .<shellname>rc. >> Also, that there is a convention that these scripts should be compatible >> with the Bourne Shell, or nowadays "bash", the Bourne-again Shell. >> >> When I started with MacPorts about two years ago, I was surprised >> to find that it put its login-time commands into .profile and there they >> still are. In Linux and Unix I would have put such commands in .bashrc >> or, back in the day, .kshrc. > > This is purely about login-shell versus interactive-shell. Checkout > INVOCATION section of `man bash` for the rules.
Thanks, Jeremy. That is very useful info. So I think I will leave my stuff in .profile. Cheers, Ian W. _______________________________________________ macports-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.macosforge.org/mailman/listinfo/macports-users
