How concise and helpful! Thanks! My default shell is bash; I like it. -Dave On Sat, 2 Feb 2002, Janina Sajka wrote: > Now, there are a chain of files involved in getting your environment set > up. There are system wide setup files in /etc, namely /etc/bashrc and > /etc/profile. Also, you have files in your home directory which set up > your shell environment. They're hidden files so you don't see them with a > simple ls. Instead do: > > ls .bash* > > You'll probably see: ...