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From: Chris Elvidge <chris@internal.net>
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Subject: Re: which file should have my bash prompt, .profile vs .bashrc
Date: Mon, 2 Dec 2024 20:39:56 +0000
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On 02/12/2024 at 16:38, Wolfgang Agnes wrote:
> 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.)
> 

Slackware user here.

> 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

No. Source .bashrc from .profile only if $BASH_VERSION is set.
Also .bash_profile will not be used if shell is not bash.

> 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!
> 



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