On: /.bashrc VS –/.profile VS –/.bash_profile

[Spivak]

Why not just guard your .bash_profile with something like

    if shopt -q login_shell; then
      ...

and then just pretend it’s the Linux-y way?

[LeoPanthera → Spivak]

My solution is that bash_profile simply runs bashrc, and bashrc starts with:

if [ -n "$PS1" ]; then

That seems to work fine everywhere.

[matheusmoreira → LeoPanthera]

I agree, this is a much better solution. Multiple shell configuration files should be deprecated and replaced with this.