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Re: .profile

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Daniel Chalef)
Sat Nov 9 06:36:21 1996

Date: Sat, 9 Nov 1996 13:34:30 +0200 (SAT)
From: Daniel Chalef <danielc@iafrica.com>
Reply-To: danielc@iafrica.com
To: redhat-list@redhat.com
In-Reply-To: <Pine.SUN.3.91.961108185451.9002B-100000@bigbang.phy.duke.edu>
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> > .bash_profile
> > .bashrc
> > 
> > So, you should rename your .profile to one of the above.
> > (I am not sure which one).
> > 
> > Regards,
> > Vlad
> 
> For the benefit of the original poster, the logic used by bash to decide 
> which file to source (.bashrc or .bash_profile) is very clearly explained 
> in the man page for bash.  

Thanks. After bothering to RTFM all is revealed <-;

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