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scripting:bashbehaviour [2015/08/04 10:03] thebonsai [Interactive shell] typo |
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| ==== Interactive shell ==== | ==== Interactive shell ==== | ||
| - | When Bash starts as an interactive non-login, shell, it reads and executes commands from ''~/.bashrc''. This file should contain, for example, aliases, since they need to be defined in every shell as they're not inherited from the parent shell. | + | When Bash starts as an interactive non-login shell, it reads and executes commands from ''~/.bashrc''. This file should contain, for example, aliases, since they need to be defined in every shell as they're not inherited from the parent shell. |
| The feature to have a system-wide ''/etc/bash.bashrc'' or a similar system-wide rc-file is specific to vendors and distributors that ship //their own, patched variant of Bash//. The classic way to have a system-wide rc file is to ''source /etc/bashrc'' from every user's ''~/.bashrc''. | The feature to have a system-wide ''/etc/bash.bashrc'' or a similar system-wide rc-file is specific to vendors and distributors that ship //their own, patched variant of Bash//. The classic way to have a system-wide rc file is to ''source /etc/bashrc'' from every user's ''~/.bashrc''. | ||