[maemo-users] OS2008: .bashrc or .bash_profile?

From: James Sparenberg james at linuxrebel.org
Date: Sun Dec 16 22:27:25 EET 2007
On Sunday 16 December 2007 07:55:55 am Peter Flynn wrote:
> Frantisek Dufka wrote:
> > Laurent MARTIN wrote:
> >> Any idea on how I could simulate .bashrc, specially 'alias'
> >> command? TIA.
> >
> > Busybox shell (ash) is pretty good, you need bash only for
> > bash-isms.
>
> My problem is that only ever having used bash (since I got out from
> under csh :-) is that I don't know what's a bash-ism and what's not
> :-)
>
> ///Peter
>

Peter, I know that feeling for sure.  Even more fun for me is when I 
get a fresh Ubuntu/Kubuntu/Debian install and sh is a soft link to 
Dash.  Dash is to Bash what a Hyundai Sonata is to a Mercedes.  The 
look is similar but it just isn't the same thing.  

James

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