This document contains infomation and resources relating to system configuration, dotfiles, and their management.
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TL;DR:
~/.bash_profile should be super-simple and just load .profile and .bashrc (in that order)
~/.profile has the stuff NOT specifically related to bash, such as environment variables (PATH and friends)
~/.bashrc has anything you'd want at an interactive command line. Command prompt, EDITOR variable, bash aliases for my use
A few other notes:
Anything that should be available to graphical applications OR to sh (or bash invoked as sh) MUST be in ~/.profile
~/.bashrc must not output anything
Anything that should be available only to login shells should go in ~/.profile
Ensure that ~/.bash_login does not exist.