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Which one??? (programming.dev)
submitted 2 years ago* by to c/programmer_humor@programming.dev
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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
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[–] 9 points 2 years ago (3 children)

What do the differently coloured arrows mean? I'm confused.

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  • [–] 11 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (2 children)

    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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  • [–] [S] 3 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    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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