Typically we interact with the Linux operating system through what is referred to as a shell interpreter. A common interpreter is the Bourne Again Shell, which people call by the catchy name of bash ...

One of the most common tasks I face is copying profile data among computers, in both Windows and Linux. And as you would expect, both operating systems handle the profile data very differently. In GNU ...

I'm trying to get a number of variables setup on login and have put them in this file.<P>The user uses bash as it's default shell but .bash_profile dosn't seem to run on login.<P>What am I missing ...

So, I have my beautiful new Gentoo install up & running on my workstation here, which is also dual-booting with Windows 2000 (games). I really wanted to find a way to use one profile between the two ...