[Pythonmac-SIG] Interactive shell

[Chris Barker]

I've never been able to figure out when to use .profile vs .bashrc, but 
I thought it had to do with only one of them being run when a subshell 
was started, or something like that.

I do note that on both my OS-X and Linux boxes, /etc/profile sources 
bashrc, and uses bash syntax, so it sure looks like a bash-specific 
config file to me.

-Chris

Henning.Ramm at mediapro-gmbh.de wrote:

> I'd use '.bashrc' or '.bash_profile', because 'export' is bash syntax -- '.profile' should be read by any shell, and tcsh (e.g. default in OSX 10.2) doesn't understand that.
> BTW this file lives in you home folder (~ = /Users/yourname).

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