If you use bash, then just be aware that the files bash reads at
startup are
$HOME/.bashrc
$HOME/.profile
$HOME/.login (sometimes)
Actually, I think you may want to do some experimenting there. In my
files I put
BFILES=$BFILES:.bashrc
or
BFILES=$BFILES:.profile
or
BFILES=$BFILES:.login
or
BFILES=$BFILES:.bash_login
or
as appropriate.
After startup, you can then echo $BFILES and see which files were
loaded, in what order.
I was surprised to find that although zsh loads multiple files, which
depending on how it's invoked (interactive, login, subshell, etc), in a
particular order, bash only loads one of them. Which one it loads
depends on the same issues.
In particular, I was surprised that .bash_login (or .profile) and
.bashrc were not both loaded into a login shell.
Amazingly, it works just like the manpage says!!! (which is different
from what the Zsh manpage says, not surprisingly.) I was used to Ksh,
which, like Zsh, loads multiple files.
joe
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