Fuck it, .zshrc it is.

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  • Top text: I STILL DON’T KNOW WHAT SHOULD GO IN .*RC VERSUS .*PROFILE
  • Bottom text: AND AT THIS POINT I’M AFRAID TO ASK
  • Gamma
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    4 months ago

    Select the color which matches the steps before filenames ((non-)login and (non-)interactive), then follow that arrow the rest of the way. There’s more colors in Bash because Bash makes a distinction between remote and local shells.

    Another way to look at the same data for Zsh (note: $ZDOTDIR will be used instead of $HOME if it’s defined at any step along the way):

    File neither interactive login both
    /etc/zshenv x x x x
    ${ZDOTDIR:-$HOME}/.zshenv x x x x
    ${ZDOTDIR:-$HOME}/.zprofile x x
    ${ZDOTDIR:-$HOME}/.zshrc x x
    ${ZDOTDIR:-$HOME}/.zlogin x x
    ${ZDOTDIR:-$HOME}/.zlogout x x

    One confusion on the Bash side of the diagram is that you see branching paths into ~/.profile, ~/.bash_profile and ~/.bash_login. Bash will use for ~/.bash_profile, ~/.bash_login, and ~/.profile, in that order, and execute only the first one that exists and is readable.

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      4 months ago

      And what’s confusing is that many times those files still manually call the others to make it more logical like zsh. That’s what I remember at least, it’s been quite a while since I used bash.

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        4 months ago

        manually call the others

        Yeah, most distros will set up source chains to make things nicer for users.