I was looking for a place to put my aliases and some suggested ~/.bashrc, others suggested ~/.bash_profile. By the way, my aliases are in ~/.bashrc and they are as follows:
# My Personal Alias
alias ipin='mount /mnt/ipod'
alias ipout='umount /mnt/ipod'
alias ipej='eject /mnt/ipod'
Anyway, 'man bash' turned up a mouthful of words which have been nicely summarised by someone from linuxquestions.org:
In other words, /etc/profile is run when a user logs in. ~/.bashrc is run for other shells (Ie opening an xterm)
/etc/profile contains environment variables and startup programs. Environ. var. are persistent - only need to read once. Startup programs are launched once - no need to start them again.
/etc/bashrc is included by ~/.bashrc, and read every time a shell starts up, people use it to include shell aliases and functions. Aliases and functions do not behave like environment variables; they are not passed to other processes.
There - that's why I put my aliases into bashrc ... I think ...
# My Personal Alias
alias ipin='mount /mnt/ipod'
alias ipout='umount /mnt/ipod'
alias ipej='eject /mnt/ipod'
Anyway, 'man bash' turned up a mouthful of words which have been nicely summarised by someone from linuxquestions.org:
In other words, /etc/profile is run when a user logs in. ~/.bashrc is run for other shells (Ie opening an xterm)
/etc/profile contains environment variables and startup programs. Environ. var. are persistent - only need to read once. Startup programs are launched once - no need to start them again.
/etc/bashrc is included by ~/.bashrc, and read every time a shell starts up, people use it to include shell aliases and functions. Aliases and functions do not behave like environment variables; they are not passed to other processes.
There - that's why I put my aliases into bashrc ... I think ...
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