Bash Setup

.bash_profile OR .bashrc, macOS and Linux

With most Linux distributions and terminal managers the .bash_profile is run only on login and .bashrc is run for every new terminal window, BUT with macOS Terminal.app the .bash_profile is run for every new terminal window. Thus for compatibility the best approach to put setup into .bashrc and source it from .bash_profile : giving the same behaviour on both Linux and macOS.

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Examples .bash_profile

Example ~/.bash_profile:

# .bash_profile

if [ -f ~/.bashrc ]; then                 ## typical setup
        . ~/.bashrc
fi

Ubuntu early exit .bashrc

Some Linux distros (Ubuntu) have a default .bashrc which early exits. It is necessary to source ~/.opticks_config prior to the early exit. Example ~/.bashrc:

# .bashrc

vip(){ vim ~/.bash_profile ~/.bashrc ~/.opticks_config ; }
ini(){ source ~/.bashrc ; }

source ~/.opticks_config

##### below from default Ubuntu .bashrc early exits if bash is not invoked with -i option

# If not running interactively, don't do anything
case $- in
    *i*) ;;
      *) return;;
esac

For notes about this see notes/issues/ubuntu-bash-login-shell-differences.rst