.bashrc vs. .bash_profile

[Rameshkumar]

Hi, 

As far as Skeletion Shell Programs, they are used to make the system
env and varibale to make it understood by shell.

Thanks and Regards, 
Rameshkumar 

On 7/16/05, Magnus Therning <magnus at therning.org> wrote:
> On Fri, Jul 15, 2005 at 04:40:06PM +1000, Russell Cook wrote:
> >
> >On Fri, 2005-07-15 at 07:22 +0200, Dennis Kaarsemaker wrote:
> >
> >> On vr, 2005-07-15 at 01:05 -0400, Matthew S-H wrote:
> >>
> >>> What is the difference?  Under what situations does it read one over
> >>> the other?
> >>
> >> .bash_profile is sourced for login shells (where you need to enter a
> >> password) and .bashrc for the rest. So .bash_profile should contain
> >> thing only to be done once per session and .bashrc should contain
> >> things to be done for every terminal you open.
> >
> >that makes sense, but for noobies, how do we tell what needs to be run
> >for ever terminal. For instance the path extension statement I was
> >looking at. Is the path global for that login, or only that shell?
> 
> It depends :-)
> 
> If you export it from the login shell then it will be present for all
> its children.
> 
> It all gets rather complicated when you add GNOME into the mix. AFAIK
> there is no login shell when you log in using GDM (the shell that execs
> gnome-session isn't interactive either). I just make every terminal
> start a login shell (there's a setting for gnome-terminal), that way I
> know what I get.
> 
> /M
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