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Which one??? (programming.dev)

submitted 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) by JackbyDev@programming.dev 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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[-] communism@lemmy.ml 9 points 4 months ago

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

[-] gamma@programming.dev 11 points 4 months ago* (last edited 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.

[-] JackbyDev@programming.dev 3 points 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.