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# Week 9/10: Assignment - Prompts, Jobs, Directories, Command Lines, and Variables
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# by Llewellyn van der Merwe
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1) The /etc/profile and ~/.bash_profile is used to run commands that are profile related. The /etc/profile is the global default for all profiles and ~/.bash_profile is the current users overide. So quoting directly from the BASH man page:
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When bash is invoked as an interactive login shell, or as a non-interactive shell with the --login option, it first reads and executes commands from the file /etc/profile, if that file ex‐ists. After reading that file, it looks for ~/.bash_profile, ~/.bash_login, and ~/.profile, in that order, and reads and executes commands from the first one that exists and is readable. The --noprofile option may be used when the shell is started to inhibit this behavior.
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