Re: Using ~/.bash_profile

[goncholden]

Here is what I get

$ shopt login_shell
login_shell     off





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------- Original Message -------
On Wednesday, April 27th, 2022 at 8:45 PM, Eduardo Bustamante 
<dualbus@gmail.com> wrote:


> On Wed, Apr 27, 2022 at 1:41 PM goncholden via help-bash@gnu.org wrote:
>
> > It is said that ~/.bash_profile is used for setting the prompt appearance.
> > I just made a ~/.bash_profile file that appends a directory to PATH. The
> > problem is that `echo $PATH` does not show the additional path, There is
> > also a ~/.profile file. Previously I was using my .bashrc to set
> > environmental variables and variables for prompt appearance (PS1, PS0).
>
>
>
> From the bash manual:
>
> > 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 exists. 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.
>
> Are you starting bash as a login shell?
>
> You can verify if you are with:
>
> $ shopt login_shell
> login_shell on