[X-Unix] .profile v/s .bashrc

[Juan Manuel Palacios]

On Oct 13, 2004, at 6:03 PM, Alexandre Quessy wrote:

> Hi!
>
> I want to access my aliases wherever I am I'm my shell. So, I wrote 
> them in my $HOME/.profile file. But there is a problem.
>
> When I first log in, it's my « .profile » that is executed. If i 
> change my shell to zsh, for instance, and then I switch back to bash, 
> it's my « .bashrc » that is executed and my aliases that were set in 
> the « .profile » aren't available anymore. Is there a workaround so 
> that my aliases are always availables ?
>
> Thanks.
>
> Alexandre Quessy
> PHP, etc. in Montréal


	Hi Alexandre! Short answer with snippets of my files (note, I don't 
know if the way I set things up is recommended, but I haven't seen any 
problems thus far):

$[juan at PowerBook: netwox](444/0,1)-> cat ~/.bash_profile | head -20

######
## User specific bash environment variables.
## Created by Juan Manuel Palacios,
## email: jmpalacios at ml1.net
######

# If we haven't read ~/.bashrc and ~/.profile lets do it now, 
practically everything is defined there:

if [ -f ~/.profile ]; then
         . ~/.profile
fi

if [ -f ~/.bashrc ]; then
         . ~/.bashrc
fi

---snip---

$[juan at PowerBook: netwox](446/0,1)-> cat ~/.profile | head -15

######
## Personal profile for bourne based shells (see also /etc/profile).
## Created by Juan Manuel Palacios,
## email: jmpalacios at ml1.net
######

# If we haven't read system wide profile lets do it now...
if [ -f /etc/profile ]; then
         . /etc/profile
fi

---snip---

$[juan at PowerBook: netwox](447/0,1)-> cat ~/.bashrc | head -15

######
## User specific bash initialization file.
## Created by Juan Manuel Palacios,
## email: jmpalacios at ml1.net
######

# If we haven't read /etc/bashrc lets do it now:

if [ -f /etc/bashrc ]; then
         . /etc/bashrc
fi

---snip---

	So, by doing this, if I span a login shell and every referenced file 
exists everything in them will be loaded; on the other hand, if I span 
a non login shell all I have to do to load my settins (a la login 
shell) is 'source ~/.bash_profile', every file will be read. So, 
bearing that, you can put whatever you want wherever you want, 
permissions allowing of course.

	Hope that helps! Regards,...


		Juan