Feb 27, 2019 · The original sh sourced .profile on startup. bash will try to source .bash_profile first, but if that doesn't exist, it will source .profile. Note that if bash is started as sh (e.g. /bin/sh …

The .profile dates back to the original Bourne shell known as sh. Since the GNU shell bash is (depending on its options) a superset of the Bourne shell, both shells can use the same …

It says that the /etc/profile file sets the environment variables at startup of the Bash shell. The /etc/profile.d directory contains other scripts that contain application-specific startup files, …

Well I tried your way for creating a custom function of printing it's argument, but even if I add that function in .bash_profile then also I have to do source ~/.bash_profile everytime I open …

Jan 7, 2016 · Even if you have bash as your login shell, .profile is often the one that's executed when you log in in graphical mode — many distributions set up the X session startup script to …

What's the difference and which is better to use when customizing my bash profile? Documentation on the export command is scarce, as it's a builtin cmd. Excerpt from version 1 …

My comment is just a stronger statement of Ilmari Karonen's 2014 comment. It is factually incorrect to say ".bashrc runs on every interactive shell launch". A login shell is an interactive …

Mar 1, 2025 · When bash is invoked as an interactive login shell, or as a non-interactive shell with the --login option, it first reads and executes commands from the file /etc/profile, if that file exists.

Jan 7, 2024 · Issue the following: dpkg -S <offending profile> This should tell us the package the profile belongs to. Use the Ubuntu Launchpad to search for the package. See if there is …

Feb 21, 2016 · The profile file is read by login shells, so it will only take effect the next time you log in. (Some systems configure terminals to read a login shell; in that case you can start a …