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Best Bash_profile For Mac

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To make an alias for the Terminal in OS X, you can either put the aliases in
.bash_profile or .bashrc. What is the difference between the two and why would I
choose to put aliases in one and not the other?

Source ~/.bash_profile Now try to type few letters of command and press [TAB],
you will see the auto-completed command or auto-suggested commands(for more than
one matches). The command will complete the remaining of the file name or
directory.

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.bash_profile is executed for login shells, while .bashrc is executed for
interactive non-login shells.

When you login (type username and password) via console, either sitting at the
machine, or remotely via ssh: .bash_profile is executed to configure your shell
before the initial command prompt.

But, if you’ve already logged into your machine and open a new terminal window
(xterm) then .bashrc is executed before the window command prompt. .bashrc is
also run when you start a new bash instance by typing /bin/bash in a terminal.

On OS X, Terminal by default runs a login shell every time, so this is a little
different to most other systems, but you can configure that in the preferences.

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AlexAlex
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X11 will look at your .bashrc while a 'regular' Terminal will look at
.bash_profile

However, if you add the following to your .bash_profile, you can then move
everything into your .bashrc file so as to consolidate everything into one place
instead of two:

jherran
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LurchLurch

For macOS, the code to put into .bash_profile to consolidate everything into
.bashrc is the following:

This is more specific for Mac terminal user.

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GOOD BASH PROFILE

TLDR; use .bash_profile for your aliases.


MAC BASH PROFILE LOCATION

The way the different initialisation files work together is a bit more
complicated, and there are some important special cases in OSX. Here are the
highlights:

 * Bash, on any platform, executes one of several different files depending on
   how it is invoked. The details are here.
 * OSX's Terminal App does something non-standard: it creates every new tab or
   window as if it were a login shell, which means that .bash_profile is called.
   Thus the TLDR advice above.
 * .bashrc is also an option, but that will be called every time you create a
   subshell (i.e., invoke bash), which can create inefficiency if you update a
   variable within it (e.g., PATH=/bin/foo:$PATH)
 * Other apps that have embedded terminals can choose to follow Terminal App's
   convention or not. Notably, Visual Studio Code, by default, does not.
 * Apps invoked via the GUI are not spawned from a shell. Thus, there are
   several competing mechanisms for setting environment variables for them to
   see, which have changed over the years.
 * Snippets that call .bashrc from .bash_profile are quite common. I don't
   recommend that, but it is a preference.

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