.bashrc vs. .bash_profile

[Matthew S-H]

On Jul 20, 2005, at 8:18 PM, Vram wrote:

> On Wed, 2005-07-20 at 17:32 -0400, Matthew S-H wrote:
>> I was totally expecting to be wrong.  But I just want to know one
>> thing:
>> why is it a bad thing to use a link?
>
> A link points to a file..
>
> You can't link two different files together with the "ln" command..
This wasn't my intent.  Instead of maintaining 2 files, you could  
just put everything in 1 file and then use ln.

> Change the data in one file and it is changed in the other file

Isn't this a good thing for those of us who want login/non-login  
shells to be the same?

> With "ln" there is only ONE file....
Again, why is this bad??



~Matt
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