Peter Davis <pfd@pfdstudio.com> writes:

> On 10/27/15 1:50 PM, Nick Dokos wrote:
>> Peter Davis <pfd@pfdstudio.com> writes:
>>> According to <http://www.science.unitn.it/~fiorella/guidelinux/gs/node153.html>, .profile is
>>> bash-specific. tcsh has a different set of login/session initialization files.
>>>
>> No, it does not say that .profile is bash-specific at all: it
>> just says it's used by bash and not used by tcsh. What *is*
>> specific to bash is $HOME/.bash_profile.
>
> Sorry.
>
>> But when setting up the window environment on Linux, the various scripts
>> are executed by whatever POSIX shell is available on the system (usually
>> sh on Linux), because a POSIX shell is supposed to be part of a POSIX
>> system, so guaranteed to be available (which is not true of csh/tcsh).
>> Hence .profile is the common denominator.
>
> Yes, .profile is the common denominator ... except where it isn't.

And on OS X everything is different anyway and changes from time to time.

Cheers,

Rainer
>
> Thanks,
> -pd
>
>

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