On Thursday 23 April 2009 17:58:11 Andrei Thorp wrote: > > What I do is: > > ln -s ~/.bashrc ~/.bash_profile > > > > To always have the same settings > > Possibly a bad idea. If you only use your .bashrc to store a couple > variables, that'll get you by. If you're actually using your .bashrc / > .zshrc / whatever, that doesn't make sense to do. For example, by > .zshrc provides a completely new command, sets console-specific > settings (like mime-type support), overrides the operation of several > commands so that they may not work as expected in scripts, and so on. > I think as a general guideline, your profile file should have _just_ > settings like "EDITOR=vim" or "PATH=blah". Maybe you could put aliases > in there also. > > If you want to have "the same settings" in both cases, just have your > .bashrc source your .bash_profile. > > Cheers, > > -Andrei Thorp That is by default: cat /etc/skel/.bash_profile . $HOME/.bashrc But for some reason it doesn't work, I never had problem with a sym link.
