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mike (transam@netspace.net.au) spake thusly:
: In article <3350c0d1.0@hades.ndirect.co.uk>, kingding-a-ling@ndirect.co.uk (Nao Yoshino) wrote:
: >
: >Can anybody give me some heading as to how I use start-up
: >files on my linux machine? I'm running the Brone Again Shell (bash),
: >but I don't know how to implement start-up files like .bashrc etc...
: 
: Don't know too much about BASH, but you should create a (I think) .profile 
: file. I'm not sure if it will execute every time you log on or every time you 
: run an instance of BASH - one of the two.
: Personally I recommend using tcsh as your shell. You then have a .login file 
: which executes when you login, and a .cshrc file which executes every instance 
: of tcsh which is run. This is where you can put your alias, history, prompt 
: settings etc etc.

I disagree -- if you make use of shell scripts, then bash combines the best of
tcsh and the traditional /bin/sh.

Anyway, copy /etc/bashrc /etc/profile and any file of similar name from your
/etc/skel directory and edit to your heart's content. You might need to add a 
line in /etc/bashrc to call $HOME/.profile.

hth,
jcm
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