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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.

Thanks,
-pd