.bashrc vs. .bash_profile

[Magnus Therning]

On Sat, Jul 16, 2005 at 02:35:54PM +0530, Rameshkumar wrote:
>As far as Skeletion Shell Programs, they are used to make the system
>env and varibale to make it understood by shell.

I'm sorry but I really don't understand what you mean.

Skeleton Shell Programs? Do you mean the files in /etc/skel?
I think those files are copied to the home dir of all newly created
users, which means they are never used directly, only copies of them are
used to set environment variables.

/M

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