.profile .bash_profile

[memecs]

Hello everyone,
checking out man pages for bash i figured out that bash is supposed to search for .bash_profile and if it doesn't find it .bash_login and in the the end .profile.

Ubuntu doesn't come with a .bash_profile file so I did mv .profile .bash_profile.
The problem is that it seems like bash it's not reading .bash_profile.

Any ideas why?
what is ( if there is) the difference between .profile and .bash_profile?

thanks a lot

[ratcheer]

My understanding is that it always reads .profile, first. Then, if .bash_profile exists, it runs that, second.

Tim

[wojox]

.profile checks for .bash_profile and .bash_login.
If they don't exist it hands controls over to .bashrc

[memecs]

this is my .profile. It seems like .profile shouldn't be read either if f ~/.bash_profile or ~/.bash_login exists.

# ~/.profile: executed by the command interpreter for login shells.
# This file is not read by bash(1), if ~/.bash_profile or ~/.bash_login
# exists.
# see /usr/share/doc/bash/examples/startup-files for examples.
# the files are located in the bash-doc package.

# the default umask is set in /etc/profile; for setting the umask
# for ssh logins, install and configure the libpam-umask package.
#umask 022

# if running bash
if [ -n "$BASH_VERSION" ]; then
    # include .bashrc if it exists
    if [ -f "$HOME/.bashrc" ]; then
    . "$HOME/.bashrc"
    fi
fi

# set PATH so it includes user's private bin if it exists
if [ -d "$HOME/bin" ] ; then
    PATH="$HOME/bin:$PATH"
fi

So what i am doing is creating a .bash_profile file like this:

REPOSITORY=somedir
. ~/.bashrc

and when I echo $REPOSITORY i see a blank line... I know what i am doind make not much sense since i could just plase the $REP var either in .bashrc or .profile, but I am new to ubuntu and i would like understand how it works ...

[mrbiggbrain]

this is my .profile. It seems like .profile shouldn't be read either if f ~/.bash_profile or ~/.bash_login exists.

# ~/.profile: executed by the command interpreter for login shells.
# This file is not read by bash(1), if ~/.bash_profile or ~/.bash_login
# exists.
# see /usr/share/doc/bash/examples/startup-files for examples.
# the files are located in the bash-doc package.

# the default umask is set in /etc/profile; for setting the umask
# for ssh logins, install and configure the libpam-umask package.
#umask 022

# if running bash
if [ -n "$BASH_VERSION" ]; then
    # include .bashrc if it exists
    if [ -f "$HOME/.bashrc" ]; then
    . "$HOME/.bashrc"
    fi
fi

# set PATH so it includes user's private bin if it exists
if [ -d "$HOME/bin" ] ; then
    PATH="$HOME/bin:$PATH"
fi

So what i am doing is creating a .bash_profile file like this:

REPOSITORY=somedir
. ~/.bashrc

and when I echo $REPOSITORY i see a blank line... I know what i am doind make not much sense since i could just plase the $REP var either in .bashrc or .profile, but I am new to ubuntu and i would like understand how it works ...

you forgot to export it

export REPOSITORY=somedir

that should replace Repository=somedir, i got this from the LFS book i had handy.

[memecs]

ops... i just checked in the actual script and i made export=... in it but still no way to make it worrks...

But the directory of .bash_profile is suppsed to be ~/ right?

[mrbiggbrain]

ops... i just checked in the actual script and i made export=... in it but still no way to make it worrks...

But the directory of .bash_profile is suppsed to be ~/ right?

and you are aware that ~/.bash_profile is alogin script and is only run when you login, have you tryed running

source ~/.bash_profile

and are you sure you do not need a non-login shell? ~/.bashrc might work


for refrence

LFS initial ~/.bash_profile

exec env -i HOME=${HOME} TERM=${TERM} PS1='\u:\w\$ ' /bin/bash

LFS initial ~/.bashrc

set +h
umask 022
LFS=/mnt/clfs
LC_ALL=POSIX
PATH=/tools/bin:/bin:/usr/bin
export LFS LC_ALL PATH

[memecs]

I tryed running source ~/.bash_profile and now when i echo $REPOSITORY i see the value... I could use .bashrc instead but i just want to figure out why when i login it calls .profile and doesn't call .bash_profile... it just doesn't make sense...

thanks for helping by the way...

[mrbiggbrain]

it should read ~/.bash_profile and if that dosnt exist then read ~/.bash_login and if that dosnt exist read ~/.profile

but as you said you belive it is reading ~/.profile first?

[memecs]

i tried to login only with .bash_profile, without .profile, and also in this case it doesn't read it. so i suppose it's not reading it at all...