[arch-general] apparently bash export is broken for users

XeCycle xecycle at gmail.com
Sun Mar 11 23:08:57 EDT 2012


Heiko Baums <lists at baums-on-web.de> writes:

> Am Sun, 11 Mar 2012 21:18:43 +0800
> schrieb XeCycle <xecycle at gmail.com>:
>
>> Aren't you supposed to edit ~/.profile by hand?
>
> Isn't the correct file to set such environment variables locally
> ~/.bash_profile resp. ~/.bashrc?

Not everyone uses bash as the default shell, you can also source
~/.profile in your bash_profile if you like.

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