Similar to our on-going Unix Sed and Unix Awk series, we will be posting several articles on Bash scripting, which will cover all the bash scripting techniques with practical examples. Shell is a program, which interprets user commands. The commands are either directly entered by the user or read from a file called the shell [...]
.bash_profile
This article will explain the sequence in which the following files are executed: /etc/profile ~/.bash_profile ~/.bashrc ~/.bash_login ~/.profile ~/.bash_logout Execution sequence for interactive login shell Following pseudo code explains the sequence of execution of these files. execute /etc/profile IF ~/.bash_profile exists THEN execute ~/.bash_profile ELSE IF ~/.bash_login exist THEN execute ~/.bash_login ELSE IF ~/.profile exist [...]
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