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I'm an IT student and I was asked to explore some of the functionalities of the .profile, bashrc and bash_logout files. The thing is I'm new to Ubuntu and Linux and I'm having trouble to find some example scripts to implement in those files. So far I know that: .profile: every change here applies to all users profiles. .bashrc: a script that's executed everytime I log in and also provide aliases. .bash_logout: not really sure what it does.

I'd like some information aswell as some ideas about changes I could do to those files so I can see how they work.

I was thinking in adding a Hello world script or a change terminal color in .bashrc but I don't know what to do with the other files. Would appreciate some help.

Thanks in advance.

Eric Quevedo Carles
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    See 6.2 Bash Startup Files in the manual – glenn jackman Dec 07 '22 at 14:30
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    man Bash, http://www.tldp.org -> Bash guides. – Hannu Dec 07 '22 at 17:01
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    What does this have to do with Ubuntu? – waltinator Dec 07 '22 at 17:50
  • There are 5 such files that are usable on the average system, but you've not provided any specifics on what system you're asking about (not all apply for all machines). Did you look up the documentation? what if anything confused you about it? Did you try the many answers on this site? (eg. https://askubuntu.com/questions/121413/understanding-bashrc-and-bash-profile) though don't forget BASH can be replaced with another shell so other startup files exist (including the non-bash startup files that apply to all) – guiverc Dec 07 '22 at 23:10
  • FYI: If I wanted an example; I'd grab a system & start it up in a VM & look at the default as my example.. Alternatively as we're talking about open source code, I can use a browser to explore the packages on a Ubuntu system & explore the code online without actually needing to download/execute any code. There are many alternatives, with them differing if you're talking about a desktop system (where GUI maybe involved in defaults), server (no GUI thus no UI setup will exist in code so will be shorter probably) etc. – guiverc Dec 07 '22 at 23:15

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