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The profile scripts used by Bash (version 3) and tcsh (v6.13) look something like this: | The profile scripts used by Bash (version 3) and tcsh (v6.13) look something like this: | ||
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Revision as of 09:21, 29 January 2008
All users on a system have the ability to customize their environment to their taste. This can involve choosing a shell such as bash, zsh, or tcsh, setting the environment, shell aliases, or running scripts at startup. These tasks are all handled by various "profile scripts".
There can be a fair amount of confusion as to what scripts are called, and in what order (tcsh is especially bad in this regard).
The profile scripts used by Bash (version 3) and tcsh (v6.13) look something like this:
