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From: Wolfgang Agnes <wagnes@example.com>
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: which file should have my bash prompt, .profile vs .bashrc
Date: Mon, 02 Dec 2024 13:38:25 -0300
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Chris Elvidge <chris@internal.net> writes:

> On 02/12/2024 at 11:32, Wolfgang Agnes wrote:
>> I installed bash and have been trying to set up my prompt.  I notice
>> that if I add
>>    PS1='# '; export PS1
>> to my .profile, then I get the prompt when I log in, not when I
>> /sudo
>> su/ from a regular user.  If I add
>>    PS1='# '; export PS1
>> to ~/.bashrc, then I get the prompt when I ``sudo su'', but not when
>> I
>> log in.  I can add the prompt set up to both files, but I'm asking
>> myself---how do you guys avoid such redundancy?  (Thanks!)
>> 
>
> Put it in .bashrc and then call .bashrc from .profile (unless
> .bash_profile exists; only for bash.)

Is this how it's typically done?  I thought that sourcing .profile, say,
from .bashrc would destroy the purpose of having a separate thing for
when logging in and another for interactive runs of the shell.  Now
realize I could make a library-script and source it from both scripts
(.profile and .bashrc), but then I've never done that myself and so I
was wondering how people do things.

Anyway, thanks very much for sharing your side of things!