Re: question about .bash_profile

[Kerin Millar]

On Thu, 1 Feb 2024, at 11:09 AM, alex xmb sw ratchev wrote:
> is it as equivalent as .profile ?

Please refer to INVOCATION in the manual. Bash looks for ~/.bash_profile, 
~/.bash_login and ~/.profile in that order, reading and executing commands from 
the first of those three files that it finds. So, if you want for bash to 
recognise ~/.profile, you have to ensure that ~/.bash_profile does not exist.

One potential benefit of using ~/.profile is that it will also be read by other 
POSIX sh implementations, such as dash. Therefore, it should only contain code 
that is compatible with sh. I tend to define environment variables in 
~/.profile before having it source ~/.bashrc, if appropriate.

if [ "$BASH" ] && [ -f ~/.bashrc ]; then
        . ~/.bashrc
fi

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Kerin Millar