On Mar 19, 9:45 am, Jeff Schwab <j...@schwabcenter.com> wrote:
> elle wrote:
>
> > On Mar 19, 9:27 am, Jeff Schwab <j...@schwabcenter.com> wrote:
> >> elle wrote:
> >>> My ~/.profile has:
> >> ...
>
> >>> And my ~/.bash_profile has the following:
> >> ...
>
> >>> What rules should I add to it? and where do I add them?
> >> You want either a .profile or a .bash_profile, not both. Once bash sees
> >> the .bash_profile, it won't look for the .profile; that's why you're
> >> having to source it manually. From bash(1):
>
> >> When bash is invoked as an interactive login shell, or as a
> >> non-inter- active shell with the --login option, it first
> >> reads and executes com- mands from the file /etc/profile,
> >> if that file exists. After reading that file, it looks for
> >> ~/.bash_profile, ~/.bash_login, and ~/.profile, in that
> >> order, and reads and executes commands from the first one
> >> that exists and is readable.
>
> >> I actually prefer just to have a .profile, but if you have to support
> >> other sh-derivatives, .bash_profile lets you play it safe.
>
> > Thank you for explaining. Just to verify that my path will be set
> > correctly, I should change:
>
> > PATH="/opt/subversion/bin:${PATH}"
> > export PATH
>
> > to
>
> > PATH="/usr/local/bin:/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/mysql/bin:/opt/
> > subversion/bin:${PATH}"
> > export PATH
>
> > is that correct?
>
> No; there was no problem with what you had, just that you split it
> across two or three files. You only should have exactly one of
> .profile, .bash_profile, and .bash_login.
Sorry to be difficult but I actually have all 3 files.
Which should I delete?
And then, what happens to the information within?
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