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Mr. Alex

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Registered: 2010-08-26

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Please explain about .bashrc

Hi.
Do I understand it correcly?
When booting bash, Arch first searches for ~/.bashrc and if it doesn't find one, it looks for /etc/bash.bashrc to get everything that comes in file?
And what if system has both of them?

Thanks.

Last edited by Mr. Alex (2010-10-16 13:57:01)

ber_t

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From: Berlin, Germany

Registered: 2010-03-10

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Re: Please explain about .bashrc

Please have a look at the INVOCATION section of the bash manpage for the bash specific behaviour.
From there you can follow the path through the files /etc/profile, /etc/profile.bash and /etc/bash.bashrc, whose contents are arch-specific.

EDIT: An even easier answer can be found in the wiki: http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Sta … les#Shells

Last edited by ber_t (2010-10-16 13:31:17)